Thomas S. Monson Quotes

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

If you think about what everyone else will think, you forget to just make music.

I won't change who I am for anything.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I know if I stay true to myself and stick to my guns, I will never fail myself.

Just really believe in yourself and stay true to yourself.

You've gotta stay true to yourself, stay who you are.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.