Hasan Minhaj Quotes

What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

I don't really try too hard to be anything that I'm not.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

I don't try to be someone I'm not.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.

I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

I want to be true to who I am.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.