Edith Sitwell Quotes

Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.

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.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

I'm so excited to just be able to be comfortable in my own skin and give what I have to the world and not feel like I have to copy to stand out or fit in.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

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.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

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

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

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.

There's no sense in trying to be or look like anyone other than yourself.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I just want girls to realize, everybody's born a way for a reason, and you are who you are. You should just be yourself at all times. The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

I don't want to be somebody else.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.