200 Quotes About Finding Yourself That All Means About Life

Quotes About Finding Yourself – Find the best version of yourself, this is probably very difficult to do in yourself.

There are many obstacles that occur regarding ourselves and our own mindset, one of them is insecurity that prevents us from loving and accepting ourselves better.

Perhaps, many of us imagine ourselves as useless, ordinary people, even though everyone’s greatness exists, but has not yet been realized.

We only focus on chiding ourselves, without seeing what is good in ourselves.

For that, the following quotes hopefully can open a little sense of our motivation to be more grateful and accept ourselves more without judging and hate ourselves.

We are perfect the way we are, we are beautiful just the way we are, and we are great at everything we do.

Here are 200 quotes about finding yourself that can be used as inspiration, motivation to see yourself more grateful in what have.

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Quotes About Finding Yourself That All Means About Life

1. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown

2. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”- Tony Robbins

3. “I love a warm bath at the end of a day.”- Cynthia Nixon

4. “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Phyllis Diller

5. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” – Paulo Coelho

6. “I think I deserve something beautiful.”- Elizabeth Gilbert

7. “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett

8. “If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.”- Cheryl Richardson

9. “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.” – Akiroq Brost

10. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

11. “We turn not older with years but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson

12. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball.

13. “Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.” – Charlyn Khater.

14. “You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.” – A.D. Posey.

15. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” – Gabrielle Union.

16. “If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.” – Bryant McGill.

17. “One of the best ways to keep growing as a person is by focusing on self-improvement and doing more for yourself daily. Focusing on yourself has many different benefits as it will improve your relationship with yourself.” – Unknown

18. “Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don’t, at least one person in the world is treating you well: you.” – Carrie Hope Fletcher.

19. “The more you focus on yourself, the less you care about [the stuff] around you.” – Nitin Namdeo.

20. “Don’t focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.” – Hopal Green.

21. “Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.” – Winnie Harlow.

22. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself.” – Mitta Xinindlu.

23. “When you shift your attention to yourself, there are countless opportunities to explore.” – Nitin Namdeo.

24. “Your life is controlled by what you focus on.” – Tony Robbins.

25. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy.

26. “My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused on a few things.” – Bill Gates.

27. “Any artist that’s involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.” – Jock Sturges

28. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyonce.

29. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou.

30. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey.

31. “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer.

32. “No human being is ever going to love you more than you love yourself.” – Avis J. Williams.

33. “Never underestimate the fact that loving others is a choice but loving yourself is a responsibility.” – Germany Kent.

34. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski.

35. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brene Brown.

36. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young.

37. “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle.

38. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley.

39. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott

40. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

41. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

42. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

43. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Princess Diana

44. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen

45. “Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

46. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer

47. “People think, ‘Oh, I’m loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.’ Love yourself enough to get up!” – Alison Sweeney.

48. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Ralph Marston.

49. “Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.” – Katherine Gaskin.

50. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” – Joe Girard.

51. “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris.

52.“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein.

53. “Self-care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia

54. “Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.” – Sharon Salzberg

55. “This revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.” – Tara Brach

54. “You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.”- Tina Turner

55. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” – Barbara De Angelis

56. “Self-care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.” – Ashley Judd

57. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

58. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

59. “Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self care for the betterment of others is good.” – Richie Norton

60. “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” – Billie Jean King

61. “The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully.” – Jimmy Stewart

62. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

63. “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.” – William Shakespeare

64. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” – Dolly Parton

65. “Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

66. “You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.” – Abiola Abrams

67. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Maya Angelou

68. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks

69. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

70. “Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.” – Cecilia Tran

71. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen

72. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

73. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw.

74. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” – Clint Eastwood.

75. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” – Ryan Reynolds.

76. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney.

77. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu.

78. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha.

79. “Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better.” – Choo Freeman

80. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself.” – Ritu Ghatourey.

81. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln.

82. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

83. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan.

84. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama.

85. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

86. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

87. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse

88. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

89. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt

90. “Grab a coffee. Journal your intentions. Get to work. Create miracles.” – Elyse Santilli

91. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig

92. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

93. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

94. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle

95. “Part of courage is simple consistency.” –  Peggy Noonan

96. “Nothing external to you has any power over you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

97. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” – Louisa May Alcott

98. “Self-care doesn’t necessarily mean jogging!” – Sandra Oh

99. “The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people. The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.” – Warren Buffett

100. “There is a part of Wonder Woman inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.” – Lynda Carter

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101. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe.

102. “Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”- Jason Evert.

103. “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”- Maxime Lagace.

104. “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.

105. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”- Dolly Parton.

106. “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.

107. “Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.”- Sonny Long.

108. “You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else’ll follow.”- Charles De Lint.

109. “You’ve got to know yourself so you can, at last, be yourself.”- D.H. Lawrence.

110. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”- Jean De La Fontaine.

111. “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.”- Maxwell Maltz.

112. “First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.”- Amos Bronson Alcott.

113. “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.

114. “The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic’, who are glad to be what they are.”- Isabel Briggs Myers.

115. “When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible.”- Tina Lifford.

116. “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.

117. “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.

118. “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.

119. “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.

120. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”- Aldous Huxley.

121. “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.

122. “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.

123. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” –Rumi

124. “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Anonymous

125. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle.

126. “Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

127. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke.

128. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau.

129. “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.

130. “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” – Thomas Browne.

131. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”- Eleanor Roosevelt.

132. “Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?”- Theodore Roethke.

133. “I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.”- Carrie Bradshaw, ‘Sex And The City’.

134. “The longest journey is the journey inward.”- Doug Hammarskjold.

135. “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you.”- Mooji.

136. “The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.”- Elijah Wood.

137. “Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow.”- Mustapha Lanre Idreez.

138. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.”- Marcel Proust.

139. “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.”- Myles Munroe.

140. “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.

141. “We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are.”- Sipho P Nkosi.

142. “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.

143. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”- Jimmy Dean.

144. “The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”- Muhammad Ali.

145. “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.

146. “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.

147. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”- Suzy Kassem.

148. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

149. “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.

150. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

151. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”- George Bernard Shaw.

152. “The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.”- Rick Warren.

153. “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.

154. “Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.”- Iyanla Vanzant.

155. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”― Siddhārtha Gautama

156. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”- Henry David Thoreau.

157. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

158. “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.

159. “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.

160. “Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.”- Hermann Hesse.

161. “Find yourself first – like yourself first – love yourself first and friendship and love will naturally find you.”- Mandy Hale.

162. “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”- Ann Landers.

163. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”- Richard Wright.

164. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”- Carl Jung.

165. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

166. “What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.”- Barbara Sher.

167. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself as its most brilliant.”- Paulo Coelho.

168. “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.

169. “For in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.” – Moira Young

170. “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

171. “Fight what you are today to become what you wanna be tomorrow.”- Sipho P. Nkosi.

172. “Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to be.”- Mandy Hale.

173. “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.”- Ursula K. Le Guin.

174. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.”- Grace Lichtenstein.

175. “The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.”- Marcus Tullius Cicero.

176. “Go find yourself first so you can also find me.”- Rumi.

177. “We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”- Kristin Martz.

178. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”- Maya Angelou.

179. “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself.”- Mandy Hale.

180. “It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.”- Jason Behr.

181. “I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”- Michel De Montaigne.

182. “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”- Benjamin Franklin.

183. “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”- Joseph Campbell.

184. “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.

185. “In the end, you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.”- Robert Brault.

186. “People need to know themselves to love themselves, and they need to love themselves to love others.”- Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge.

187. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Goals

188. “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

189. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”- Mohandas Gandhi.

190. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”- Lao Tzu.

191. “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.

192. “Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.”- Bonnie Zackson Koury.

193. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”- Epictetus.

194. “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.

195. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.”- Mark Twain.

196. “If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”- Francesca Lia Block

197. “Resolve to be thyself; and know that he, who finds himself, loses his misery.”- Matthew Arnold.

198. “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.

199. “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.

200. “You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.”- Billy Graham.

That was it, 200 quotes about finding yourself that will make you happier, accept yourself better, and look for all your needs within yourself without hating and hurting yourself.

I hope you can find the best path for yourself