Top 100 Quotes About Know Yourself
#1. You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.
Joyce Meyer
#2. To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
Bat For Lashes
#3. Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.
Robin Sharma
#4. What I'm saying here is sometimes the one you love introduces you to the person inside - the real one who you're close to, you don't even recognize her. Sometimes the one you love knows you better than you know yourself. They bring out the best in us when we least expect it.
Kendall Grey
#5. Sometimes you may undermine yourself when you are worthy but you need to wake up from sleep and know yourself better.
Auliq Ice
#6. Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.
John Treacy
#7. Isn't it the most blissful thing in the world to be away from everything you have ever known
to be so far away that you don't even know yourself anymore and you're not sure you ever want to come back to all of the things you're a part of?
Jamaica Kincaid
#8. Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#9. I want to challenge myself and do new things.
I don't know what it's like to be my true self. But it's more interesting that way.
Even if you don't know yourself?
If you don't know it means you can become anything you want to be, right?
Peach-Pit
#10. . "You think you know me?"
"Jason," I sigh loudly. "I probably know you better than you know yourself unfortunately.
Rachel Spanswick
#12. I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.
Johnny Depp
#13. The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
Caroline Myss
#14. You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. Don't work harder; Learn Faster! Invest in the reality you want, not the reality you have! Know yourself, and you will know your path to success!
Robin Sacredfire
#16. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D.H. Lawrence
#17. If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.
Shereen El Feki
#18. To Know others is perceptive,
to know yourself is wise.
To conquer others is forceful,
to conquer yourself is strong.
Lao-Tzu
#19. Don't even try to argue with your doctor because he knows you more than you think you know yourself.
Euginia Herlihy
#20. Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
Yunus Emre
#21. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
#22. I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.
Nicholas D'Agosto
#23. To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.
Stedman Graham
#25. That I knew I'd misjudged you. That you do love him. I'm not saying in what way. Maybe you don't even know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him.
Suzanne Collins
#26. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.
J.K. Rowling
#27. Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
Patrick Ness
#28. Nothing is known; for if you do not know yourself,
Life then remains only you, and just this and that.
Gian Kumar
#29. To know yourself means to spend time looking beyond your worldly identities.
Shama Patel
#31. To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
Leo Buscaglia
#32. Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#33. You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
Kate Thompson
#34. Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces.
Edgar Cayce
#35. Know God, and you know yourself;
know yourself, and you know the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Know the enemy and know yourself.
Sun Tzu
#37. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.
Davis Bunn
#38. If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.
Jack Nicholson
#39. Know Scripture, know yourself, and know the need around you.2
Jennie Allen
#40. Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.
Debbie Ford
#41. When you read a book, it's like you're becoming an actor, taking on the roles of a dozen different people, coming to know and love them like you know yourself. It's one of the best ways to experience another life, to become something that you are not.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.
Bill Jensen
#43. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.
Patricia MacLachlan
#44. Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#45. You can't lead if you don't know what you were made for. You can't know what you were made for if you don't ask the one who made you! Know your creator; know yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?"
Answer: "Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - John Calvin (from his catechism)
John Calvin
#47. Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.
Suzuki Shosan
#48. Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
Catie Curtis
#49. I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#50. Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
Peter Farrelly
#51. If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.
Bill Bowerman
#52. The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.
Joel Edgerton
#53. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
#54. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca
#55. The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.
Edgar Cayce
#56. First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.
Leon Brown
#57. If you don't know yourself then take time to find yourself
Nitra Gipson
#58. If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Stephen Covey
#59. You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
#60. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.
Jeff Cunningham
#62. Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.
Ledisi
#63. The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.
Mike Dooley
#65. I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Princess Diana
#66. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Bruce Lee
#67. You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#68. There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
Aidan Chambers
#70. This is the way I see it: if you get to know yourself really well, you might discover that deep down inside you're just a dirty, disgusting, and selfish piece of shit. What if my heart is all rotted out and corrupted? What about that? What am I suppose to do with that information? Just tell me that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#71. The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?
RZA
#72. If there's one thing the divas have shown it is that to indulge your passions fully is to know yourself completely. Only then can you treat the rest of the world
its people, its ecosystems, its politics
with provocative wit and compassion.
Holly Morris
#73. Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
Deepak Chopra
#74. Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.
Patrick Ness
#75. In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#76. This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.
Deepak Chopra
#77. To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.
Amy Denise
#78. Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.
Deepak Burfiwala
#79. Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
Rajneesh
#80. Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#81. know yourself and you will win all battles
Sun Tzu
#82. I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
Graciela Iturbide
#83. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?
Farid Al-Din Attar
#84. Who you know yourself to be is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being.
Werner Erhard
#85. I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#86. In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others.
Lord Chesterfield
#87. You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Thomas Traherne
#88. Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
#89. Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.
Rhianna Pratchett
#90. Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
George MacDonald
#91. If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#92. The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.
Vironika Tugaleva
#93. As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
Marie Helvin
#94. I've never really undestood," the unicorn mused as the man picked himself up," what you dream of doing with me, once you've caught me."
The man leaped again, and she slipped away from him like rain. "I don't think you know yourself," she said.
Peter S. Beagle
#95. When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.
Evan Sutter
#96. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
Sun Tzu
#97. I don't see myself very clearly.
Then look at the people who love you ... Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.
Armistead Maupin
#99. Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
Aeschylus
#100. That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
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