Selena Gomez Quotes

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

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

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.

Ultimately, I'm not doing that much. I'm only doing what a human being who feels wants to do - in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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 original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

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.