Scott Adams Quotes

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.

It's always important to be yourself.

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

Always try to be yourself.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

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

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

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.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

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.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

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.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

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

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.