Coco Chanel Quotes

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, 'I think the light is green, and I'm going to keep doing this.'

I still have a good girl deep inside, but also recognise that it's worth saying things people will disagree with or get annoyed.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.