Being Your True Self Quotes:

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure, Lack Of Faith, Being Your True Self

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Time To Move On, Discovering Yourself

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Confidence

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improving Yourself, Discovering Self

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

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

topic: Life, Wisdom, Self, Discovering Yourself, Lost Yourself

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Business, Self Esteem, Discovering Yourself, Inner Growth

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

- Jackson Pollock

topic: Artist, Discovery, Self, Expressionism, Discovering Self

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wisdom, Travel, Character, Discovering Yourself, Inner Journey

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

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. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Needs, Done, Discovering Yourself, Mission And Vision

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Being Yourself, Witty, Discovering Yourself, Just Being You

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

topic: Self, Years, Generosity, Discovering Yourself, Unselfishness

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

- Carl Jung

topic: Becoming, Conscious, True Self, Discovering Yourself, Sacrilege

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

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Personality, Rules Of Life, Knowing Oneself

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

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

topic: Littles, Chance, Individual, Self Discovery, Discovering Your True Self

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

topic: Self, Treasure, Lasts, Discovering Yourself, Discovering Self

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Positive, Travel, Journey Of Self Discovery, Life Going On

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Acceptance, Self, Three, Self Discovery, Discovering Self

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

- Danielle LaPorte

source: FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Jan 23, 2012

topic: Positivity, Self, Formulas, Just Be Yourself, Formula For Success

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

- James Thurber

source: James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Running, Humor, Learning, Discovering Yourself, Learning About Yourself

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dream, Soul Life, Source Of Life

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

topic: Romantic Love, Exciting, True Self, Discovering Your True Self, Discovery In Life

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Winning, Expression, Self, Being Your True Self

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

- Satish Kumar

topic: Book, Journey, Social, Inner Journey, Discovering Your True Self

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

- Tim Field

topic: Silence, Victim, Bullied, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

- Matthew Arnold

source: 'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness, Discovering Yourself, Old Self

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Funny Life, Men, Envelopes, Manila, Discovering Yourself

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Men, Study, Discovering Self, Discovering Your True Self

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Happiness, Spring, Insperational, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

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 Dostoevsky

topic: Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself, Discovering Yourself, Self Discovery

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness, Discovering Self, Discovering Your True Self

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Inspirational, Learning, Finding Yourself, Self Realization, Discovering Self

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Self, Mindful Living, Leather Shoes

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

- Ann Landers

topic: Dog, Finding Yourself, Admiration, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Finding Yourself, Fleeing, Finding Oneself, Discovering Self, Discovering Your True Self

Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

- Martha Beck

topic: Hero, Self, Hands, Being Your True Self