be you and not someone else

if you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself.

Be true to thine own self

Be that self that one is

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Although I may not be yours, I can never be another’s.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.