Finding Yourself Quotes

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Do you battle with your standpoint in difficult stretches? These disposition quotes are here to assist you with keeping a decent mentality when you need to.

Mentality is a vital part of viewpoint, character, and character.

It’s the way we convey ourselves, shape our perspectives, and cooperate with others in both great and awful occasions. A decent mentality is frequently a quality group search for in others yet neglect to show themselves.

These mentality quotes show that the right considerations and practices yield positive outcomes when we apply them in our lives.

 

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The process of discovering who you are is a huge part of life. Discovering and knowing who we are establishes our sense of self-worth, confidence, and belief. These quotes about finding yourself are a great place to start.

For some, the process of self-discovery is completely natural. Spending time alone helps them to focus on who they are, what their goals are, and how they want to live.
Others live in the moment and don’t explore their inner self until something or someone else forces them to.

“Finding yourself” looks different for everyone.

For some, it might mean spending a few months or a year of traveling the world. For others, the routine and friendships of college help them to establish who they are and what they want to do. For many, the process of finding out who they are takes much longer, and includes losses, heartbreaks, and changes in direction along the way.

Though your journey to finding yourself may be a personal one, we all deserve some inspiration along the way. So here are the very best quotes about finding yourself, knowing yourself, and self-discovery to help you on your way!


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The process of discovering who you are is a huge part of life. Discovering and knowing who we are establishes our sense of self-worth, confidence, and belief. These quotes about finding yourself are a great place to start.
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For some, the process of self-discovery is completely natural. Spending time alone helps them to focus on who they are, what their goals are, and how they want to live.
Others live in the moment and don’t explore their inner self until something or someone else forces them to.
“Finding yourself” looks different for everyone.
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For some, it might mean spending a few months or a year of traveling the world. For others, the routine and friendships of college help them to establish who they are and what they want to do. For many, the process of finding out who they are takes much longer, and includes losses, heartbreaks, and changes in direction along the way.
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Though your journey to finding yourself may be a personal one, we all deserve some inspiration along the way. So here are the very best quotes about finding yourself, knowing yourself, and self-discovery to help you on your way!
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f 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
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates

In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
Robert Brault
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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
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You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.
Charles de Lint
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Lao Tzu
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If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
Lykke Li
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Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
Theodore Roethke
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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
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Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.
Bonnie Zackson Koury
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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

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
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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
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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
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
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You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
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One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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What you fear is inside yourself… The power to do great or terrible things.
Liam Neeson, Batman Begins
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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.
H.W. Shaw
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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

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
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I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.
Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and The City
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If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.
Unknown
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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.
Blise Pascal
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
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All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost.
Avicci, Wake Me Up
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Self-Discovery and Knowing Yourself
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
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Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.
Mooji
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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
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Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright, Native Son
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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
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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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
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
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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
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
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People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
Shannon L. Adler
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne
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I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Mohammad Ali
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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
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
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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

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, Notes from Underground, 1864
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Carl Jung
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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
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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
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
Voltaire
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman
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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