The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma GandhiWe know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William ShakespeareI count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
AristotleI want you to be everything that's you deep at the center of your being.
ConfuciusAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham LincolnI am the miracle.
BuddhaIt is never too late to be what you might have been.
George EliotShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Anais NinBecause one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao TzuI think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
Johnny DeppI can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya AngelouPlease accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho MarxIf I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?
Abraham LincolnCharacter is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnIn the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak ChopraDon't let them change ya, or even rearrange ya.
Bob MarleyBe who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.
UnknownSelf-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William ShakespeareI wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane AustenIf you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya AngelouWe have all a better guide in ourselves if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane AustenThe mind is everything. What you think you become.
BuddhaOur ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar WildeWe are what we believe we are.
C. S. LewisIt is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Herman HesseI have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath TagoreLet nothing dim the light that shines from within.
Maya AngelouThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark TwainThe act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
Paulo CoelhoSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya AngelouHe who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
ConfuciusThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan WattsIt ain't what they call you it's what you answer to.
W. C. FieldsWhat a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head and is known to none but himself.
Mark TwainIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinThis above all, to thine own self be true.
William ShakespeareI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliI've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
Muhammad AliWhen I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Paulo CoelhoThe best way to be original is to be yourself.
Paulo CoelhoEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark TwainEach one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma GandhiUnder certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark TwainToday you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. SeussWhat the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
ConfuciusI am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar WildeThe only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma GandhiThe perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
ConfuciusA man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark TwainI write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo CoelhoThere's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew BarrymoreWe are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor RooseveltIt is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar WildeI believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry RollinsI didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
Taylor SwiftTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan WattsMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeThe self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John DeweyIf you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
ConfuciusAs soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. RowlingThere are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know one's self.
Benjamin FranklinNever be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
Harvey FiersteinWe must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas MertonEveryone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mahatma GandhiWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleEach of us has that right that possibility to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya AngelouI am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William ShakespeareThousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark TwainI'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah WinfreyAll that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnOnly the shallow know themselves.
Oscar WildeYou have to be someone.
Bob MarleyBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre GideSometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Marilyn MansonThe whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah WinfreyI sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
William ShatnerA man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil GibranWhat's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William ShakespeareI never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
Drew BarrymoreThe worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEverybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane AustenThe spirit is the true self. The spirit the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have been a selfish being all my life, in practice though, not in principle.
Jane AustenEach one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma GandhiI am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.
Angelina JolieTact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham LincolnMen acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus AureliusHe who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. SeussI'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. SeussYou are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
Dr. SeussWhy fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. SeussI'm a rebel, soul rebel. I'm a capturer, soul adventurer.
Bob MarleyI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor SwiftWhat you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Rabindranath TagoreDon’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
Paulo CoelhoOne man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane AustenHer own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions,
Jane AustenA person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman HesseHe has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value... he has given to me myself.
Herman HesseMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Herman HesseI had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah WinfreyWhat is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina AguileraHappiness belongs to the self-sufficient
AristotleIf you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah WinfreyI have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar WildeThe ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan WattsSuch as we are made of such we be.
William ShakespeareAs you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah WinfreyAct as you speak, speak as you feel. Do not play false to your own conscience by forcibly enslaving it and embarking on actions not approved by it.
Sai BabaFor what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
AristotleGod has given you one face and you make yourself another.
William ShakespeareBob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob MarleyI'm not a person that socializes very well.
Paulo CoelhoOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George EliotNon-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma GandhiI'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom StoppardI'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.
Mike Tyson