Best Finding Yourself Quotes

Quotes About Finding Yourself.

Self discovery is the first step to accomplishing great things in one’s life. Despite knowing the importance of finding one’s self, most people have a difficult time doing just that, we tend to find ourselves in confused states. To help get started with finding yourself, we have compiled the best collection of quotes about finding yourself.

If you are at a point in your life when you don’t know what steps to take next, you have no idea of what’s good for, it is required you take a step back and look at your life how it has been going so far, while at it, get inspired by successful and famous people who documented their experience of finding themselves in the form of quotes about finding yourself. Quotes like these are bit sized way of starting to make important changes and decision in our lives through little activities as simple as reading life changing quotes.

Being in a state of confusion about your life as a young person would have you think you are alone and your world is crumbling, but that’s not case. Interestingly everyone has at one time in their life been in such state of confusion, it goes to show you are attentive to your life and are actually concerned about how it goes, which is actually a good way to start with finding yourself; being conscious of things going good, bad or stagnant. These finding yourself quotes would open your eyes to what others have been able to figure out with regards to self improvement and finding their self.

If you want to learn from some of these great individuals continue to read the quotes about finding yourself.

Finding Myself Quotes

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. – Henri Frederic Amiel.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it. – Carl Sagan.
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Doubt kills more Dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman.
I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself. – Ringo Starr
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self. – Benjamin Franklin
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean.
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he, who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold.
We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are. – Sipho P Nkosi.
Fight what you are today to become what you wanna be tomorrow. – Sipho P. Nkosi.
We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are. – Sipho P Nkosi
I was once afraid of people saying Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am. -Oprah Winfrey
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself. -Myles Munroe.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself as its most brilliant. – Paulo Coelho.
Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. – Julien Green.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. – S. I. Hayakawa.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow. – Mustapha Lanre Idreez
The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery. -Elijah Wood.
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. – Mooji
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. – Mooji
It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. -Marianne Williamson
The longest journey is the journey inward. -Doug Hammarskjold
I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me. -Carrie Bradshaw
Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. -Brandon Sanderson.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. -Mohammad Ali
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom- Aristotle
To find yourself, think for yourself. -Socrates
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way. – Voltaire
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha
To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd. -Plato
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. – Lao Tzu
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. – Lao Tzu
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. – Mark Twain
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self. – Benjamin Franklin
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are. – Barbara Sher.
Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself; you can freely be what you want to be. – Michael Bassey Johnson
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. -Jean-Paul Sartre
By discovering nature, you discover yourself. – Maxime Lagace.
Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself. – Jason Evert.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. – Michel De Montaigne.
It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself -Jason Behr.
You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul. – Marie Forleo.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather.
You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is. – Billy Graham.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. – Dale Carnegie.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. – Ellen DeGeneres
If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery. -Lykke Li
Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t. -Iyanla Vanzant.
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. – David Leonhardt.
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul? -Theodore Roethke
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. – Rick Warren
The only journey is the journey within. – Rainer Maria Rilke.
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself. – Mandy Hale
One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. – Mandy Hale.
Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to be.– Mandy Hale.
Find yourself first-like yourself first-love yourself first and friendship and love will naturally find you. – Mandy Hale.
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Anonymous
If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found. – Anonymous
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. – Julien Green
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. – S. I. Hayakawa
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou.
We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too. – Kristin Martz.
Go find yourself first so you can also find me. – Rumi.
You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. – Rumi
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man – Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret. – Bonnie Zackson Koury
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself. – Mariah Carey
Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you. – Tim Fargo
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. – Jackson Pollock
Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring. – Grace Lichtenstein.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin.
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul? – Theodore Roethke.
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. – Thomas Browne.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better. – Blaise Pascal
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau
Know thyself” If I knew myself, I’d run away. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. – Ann Landers
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz.
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself. – Hermann Hesse.
Don’t spend all of your time trying to find yourself. Spend your time creating yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of. – Sonya Parker.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. – Henry David Thoreau
Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret. – Bonnie Zackson Koury.
In the end, you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. – Robert Brault.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot.
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. – Joseph Campbell.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. – Amos Bronson Alcott
The Element is about discovering yourself, and you can’t do this if you’re trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can’t be yourself in a swarm. -Ken Robinson.
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible. – Tina Lifford.
The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are. – Isabel Briggs Myers.
It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. – Marianne Williamson.
What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about whom you are and who you can become. – Barbara Sher.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright.
So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy. – Suzuki Roshi.
People need to know themselves to love themselves, and they need to love themselves to love others. – Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge.
Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. – Ann Landers.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. – James A. Michener
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. – James A. Froude
In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are. – Robert Brault
Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of. – Sonya Parker
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. – Jerry Gilles
You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow. – Charles de Lint
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine… who one is and wants to be. – May Sarton
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St. Augustine
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. – Carl Jung
There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you – it’s like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. – Terrence Rafferty
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit. – Shannon L. Adler
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright

Don’t stop finding yourself, self realization is an intricate part of great achievements and life fulfilment. While these quotes about finding yourself would help put you on the right part, it is important that you seek knowledge, ask questions, travel and have different kinds of experience at life. These activities alongside quotes about finding yourself would go a long way in improving your life and the way you look at things. Do share these quotes with your friends and family who are also interested in finding themselves.

Quotes About Finding Yourself.

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