Robin McKinley Quotes

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

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

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

You've always made the mistake of being 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.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

The best way to be original is to be 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.

It's always important to be yourself.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself." So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

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

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

Always try to be yourself.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.