Donald Miller Quotes

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

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.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

I don't want to be someone else.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

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.