Ian MacKaye Quotes

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

My aim in life is not to judge.

I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me.

I know that I'm a role model for a lot of people, and I'd like to be. I know that there are people who probably don't agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That's OK.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

People who have self-confidence and believe that what they do is right are not disturbed by the presence of people who do not think or live like them.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.