Quotes about Be Your Own Person

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. Votes: 4

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out. Votes: 4

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person. Votes: 4

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things. Votes: 4

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it. Votes: 4

Have the confidence to be your own person. Votes: 3

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person. Votes: 3

My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing. Votes: 3

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity. Votes: 3

The Olympics are kind of weird. You have to be on a team. That's cool if you're a skier. But in snowboarding, you just want to be your own person. Votes: 3

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person. Votes: 3

Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone. Votes: 3

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. Votes: 2

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen. Votes: 2

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? Votes: 2

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own. Votes: 2

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own. Votes: 2

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. Votes: 2

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. Votes: 2

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out. Votes: 2

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me. Votes: 2

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else. Votes: 2

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. Votes: 2

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. Votes: 2

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. Votes: 2

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. Votes: 2

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. Votes: 2

Be your own person because no one can take that away from you. Votes: 1

You are the only person that you'll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker. Votes: 1

Take pride in yourself. Be your own person. Votes: 0

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Votes: 0

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood. Votes: 0

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless Votes: 0

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness Votes: 0

The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart. Votes: 0

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. Votes: 0

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. Votes: 0

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person. Votes: 0

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own. Votes: 0

You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine. Votes: 0

The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought. Votes: 0

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. Votes: 0

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form. Votes: 0

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life. Votes: 0

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. Votes: 0

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Votes: 0

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. Votes: 0

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. Votes: 0

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy. Votes: 0

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. Votes: 0

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people. Votes: 0

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person. Votes: 0

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing. Votes: 0

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs. Votes: 0

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. Votes: 0

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be Votes: 0

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results. Votes: 0

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother. Votes: 0

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. Votes: 0

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. Votes: 0

No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings. Votes: 0

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. Votes: 0

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing. Votes: 0

Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else. Votes: 0

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. Votes: 0

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Votes: 0

You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences. Votes: 0

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's. Votes: 0

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own. Votes: 0

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. Votes: 0

In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever. Votes: 0

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. Votes: 0

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own. Votes: 0

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. Votes: 0

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. Votes: 0

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. Votes: 0

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists. Votes: 0

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. Votes: 0

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. Votes: 0

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. Votes: 0

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. Votes: 0

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self. Votes: 0

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels. Votes: 0

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. Votes: 0

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you. Votes: 0

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering. Votes: 0

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy. Votes: 0

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. Votes: 0

I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool. Votes: 0

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you. Votes: 0