Lady Gaga Quotes

Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

Everybody's inspiring me to just be me.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

I quite like being who I am.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

You change the world by being 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 think a person has to just be herself.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I'm not sorry for who I am.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

I love seeing a young woman embrace who she is.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

I've always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.

I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.