Phil McGraw Quotes

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

Always try to be yourself.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great