Debbie Ford Quotes

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.

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

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.

It's always important to be yourself.

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

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

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.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

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

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

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.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.