90+ Finding Yourself Quotes And Sayings About Self-Discovery

Quotes about Finding Yourself

  • “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ―Ann Landers
  • “Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” ―Matthew Arnold
  • “When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.” ―Stephen Richards
  • “First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.” ―Amos Bronson Alcott
  • “Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.” ―Catherine Of Siena
  • “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” ―Maya Angelou
  • “Find yourself first-like yourself first-love yourself FIRST & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.” ―Mandy Hale
  • “The only way to find yourself is when you start being true to everyone around you.” ―Unknown
  • “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
  • “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ―Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Famous Quotes About Finding Yourself

  • “Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.” ―Menander
  • “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ―Lao-Tzu
  • “In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.” ―Robert Brault
  • “If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.” ―Lykke Li
  • “Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.” ―Robert Terwilliger
  • “Whatever it takes to find the real you, don’t be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.” ―Stephen Richards
  • “Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.”
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” ―Sri Ravi Shankar
  • “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
  • “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
  • “Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.” ―Rasheed Ogunlaru

Inspirational Quotes about Self-Discovery

  • “Discover Thy-self.” ―Anonymous
  • “Know thyself.” ―Socrates
  • “To find yourself, think for yourself.” ―Socrates
  • “The longest journey is the journey inward.” ―Dag Hannarskjold
  • “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ―Aristotle
  • “In suffering we find our truest selves.” ―Jesie Burton
  • “Who am I? Ask and start your journey within.” ―Anonymous
  • “The only journey is the one within.” ―Rainer Maria Rilka
  • “The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.” ―Elijah Wood
  • “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ―Dolly Parton
  • “There is more to myself than anyone has so far discovered.” ―Anonymous
  • “I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.” ―Carrie Bradshaw
  • “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you.” ―Mooji
  • “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ―Rumi
  • “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ―Henry David Thoreau
  • “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ―E.E Cummings
  • “You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.”
  • “When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.” ―Tina Lifford
  • “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ―Gandhi
  • “Self-discovery often happens when we move out of our comfort zone and change the norm.” ―Fola O’Martins
  • “Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow.” ―Destiny’s Odyssey
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ―Marcel Proust
  • “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” ―Buddha
  • “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ―Lao Tzu
  • “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
  • “Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.” ―Kristin Hannah
  • “Once you’ve started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can’t turn back. The universe doesn’t allow it.” ―Lisa Unger
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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

Short Quotes about Finding Yourself

  • “To find yourself, think for yourself.” ―Socrates
  • “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ―Aristotle
  • “The only journey is the journey within.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” ―Thomas Browne
  • “Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.” ―Sonny Long
  • “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
  • “Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.” ―Jason Evert
  • “You never find yourself until you face the truth.” ―Pearl Bailey
  • “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” ―Mandy Hale
  • “What you have to find is, yourself first.” ―Nishi De Silva
  • “Go find yourself first so you can also find me.” ―Rumi
  • “We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”
  • “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ―Dolly Parton
  • “Know thyself” If I knew myself, I’d run away.” ―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.” ―Charles De Lint
  • “It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.” ―Jason Behr
  • “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ―Henry David Thoreau
  • “You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.” ―D. H. Lawrence
  • “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.” ―Maxwell Maltz
  • “Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?” ―Theodore Roethke

Life is About Finding Yourself Quotes

  • “It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” ―Mariska Hargitay
  • “If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.”
  • “Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.” ―Bonnie Zackson Koury
  • “Someday, somewhere ‘ anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” ―Pablo Neruda
  • “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
  • “The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.” ―Arianna Huffington
  • “Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.” ―Anonymous
  • “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.” ―Myles Munroe
  • “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ―Eckhart Tolle
  • “Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.” ―Herman Hesse

Finding Peace within Yourself Quotes

  • “Peace is always beautiful.” —Walt Whitman
  • “Peace is its own reward.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” —Dalai Lama
  • “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” —George Michael
  • “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” —Marvin Gaye
  • “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” —Norman Vincent Peale
  • “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” —Eckhart Tolle
  • “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
  • “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” —Wayne W. Dye
  • “Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’ ” —Haile Selassie
  • “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” —Saint Francis de Sales
  • “If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” —Linda Evans
  • “Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” —Bernie Siegel