Bethany Hamilton Quotes

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I'm not trying to be anyone else.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

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 am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

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

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

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

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I can't be anybody but myself.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.