Quotes · Skopia

14 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Being oneself✕clear

Political literature

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The Rebel · 1951

★ 7.1

Film · Teen (film) · Drama (film) · Teen · Drama

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

Dead Poets Society · 1989

★ 7.0

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.8

What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is "himself."

1867

★ 3.7

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.

Reality Bites · 1994

★ 3.7

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

Moonlight · 2016

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

Vogue · 1961

★ 3.6

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

But remember, bee yourself.

Aladdin · 1992

★ 2.2

Feminist literature

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

The Feminine Mystique · 1963

★ 2.1

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

I never wanted to be anybody else.

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 2.0

Film · Animation (film) · Fantasy (film) · Animation · Fantasy

Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not.

How to Train Your Dragon · 2010

★ 2.0

Film · Fantasy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Fantasy · Comedy drama

I've been nothin' but myself since the day I was born, and if you can't see that it's your failin', not mine.

Big Fish · 2003

★ 1.9

Film · Road movie · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles · 1987

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden · 1854

★ 1.4