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In a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, the struggle to determine your own identity and be yourself is real. Isn’t it true that you have been through moments when you wake up determined to accomplish your dreams, the goals that you have set, the way you want to shape your life, yet you give in and find yourself giving in to the society pressures and personal anxieties? It is easy, convenient and less tiring to succumb to the opinions, thoughts, viewpoints, pressures, expectations, values and ideas that your kith and kin or society drives you to. However, it is very difficult to face your fears and be yourself. Many celebrities, influential personalities, philosophers, business personalities, motivational speakers and leaders have shared their opinions, thoughts and experiences on their struggles to find their true calling. Following is a compilation of quotable quotes and sayings that will drive you to be yourself. Read through the famous, popular, inspiring and motivating quotes and thoughts on being yourself that will give you courage to love yourself and build your future.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Mark Twain

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
Dr. Seuss

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Suzanne Collins

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Robert Frost

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain

To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
Marilyn Monroe

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
Joss Whedon

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Pablo Neruda

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
Haruki Murakami

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
Gautama Buddha

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.
John Grisham

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C. S. Lewis

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway