“You are constantly trying to please. If you are agreeing to like the same things he likes in the hopes he will like you more, or you are changing things about yourself for the same reason, it screams desperation. He should like you for who you are. Don't change yourself for the people you date becau…”— Drew Schroeder, familyshare.com
“Don’t pretend to be someone else just to get attention. Dress the way you want to be treated. Your look is part of your self-expression, not a billboard to scream your latest crisis. Give yourself a makeover to signal your new life but to thine own fabulosity be true.”— Abiola Abrams, gurl.com
“Don't sext something you'd never actually say in real life. Be yourself.”— Ariel Nagi, cosmopolitan.com
“The cardinal rule is to be yourself. However trite it may sound, it's true. If you can't impress your crush by being true to who you are, do you really want to spend much more time with him or her?”— Crystal Schwanke, teens.lovetoknow.com
“If my thirties have taught me anything so far, it's that I'm ready to try to be myself with no apologies.”— Taylor Jenkins Reid, amazon.com
“You can be yourself. He's seen you at your best and your worst, and doesn't think any differently of you because of it. You're no longer afraid to go sans makeup or Spanx in his presence. He loves you for YOU.”— Teddi Ginsberg, wewomen.com
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”— Tina Fey, inc.com
“A Warrior does not spend his days trying to play the role that others have chosen for him.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that. Don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder that you are. Every star is important to the sky.”— Douglas Pagels, amazon.com
“Forcing people to adhere to outmoded, rigid notions of identity isn’t good for anybody—men, women, gay, straight, transgender, or otherwise. These stereotypes limit our ability to simply be ourselves.”— Barack Obama, glamour.com
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else in the greatest accomplishment.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, medium.com
“Be your authentic self. This is the first quality that attracts a man to a woman. Your femininity inspires him.”— Nicole DiRocco, datingadvice.com