Bliss Carman Quotes

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

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

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.

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.

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.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

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

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.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

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

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Be yourself, let you come through.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.