Top 70 Quotes About Knowing Oneself
#1. Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#2. Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.
Martin Van Creveld
#3. Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#4. Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.
Franz Grillparzer
#6. The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
Mervyn Davies
#7. Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing.
Sameh Elsayed
#8. Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!
Martin R. Lemieux
#10. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#11. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#13. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.
Anthony Marais
#14. How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
Nico J. Genes
#15. We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.
Sharon Lee
#16. Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
#17. It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.
Jonathan Bailey
#19. The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
Maria Montessori
#20. It is perhaps one's own fault, to see oneself drifting, rotting, in dishonour and horrible futility, and all the while knowing that somewhere within one there is the possibility of a decent human being.
George Orwell
#21. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
LDarnell
#22. ...the whole 'know thyself' thing isn't a journey to a fixed destination. Learning about myself changes me, forcing me to learn more. 'Know thyself' isn't a goal; it's a road.
Garon Whited
#24. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.
Candice Proctor
#25. Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.
Andre Gide
#26. Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
Miya Yamanouchi
#27. All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#28. As I awaken in the mornings I have visions... in the moment, the sun is either going to set or its going to rise... because if it should not do either.. the planet would not evolve. We are all apart of the Universe.. for if we do or we don't will have the same impact.
Jonathan Bailey
#29. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event.
Bryant McGill
#31. Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.
Jonathan Bailey
#32. Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.
Wayne Dyer
#33. Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.
Laurie Nadel
#34. Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment.
Mark W. Boyer
#35. To fix hearts one must know one's own.
Will Advise
#36. Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are." -Faolan
Brittany L. Engels
#37. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
#38. We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.
Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right
Jonathan Bailey
#39. Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Steve Maraboli
#40. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.
Laura Riding
#41. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#42. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#44. Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.
Eugene Gendlin
#45. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
#46. I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.
Fernando Pessoa
#47. One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.
Alexis Lykiard
#48. We are in fact living organisms that exist in a living universe
L.J. Vanier
#49. What we did yesterday, Can be changed today to make tomorrow different.. PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
Precious Present Moments Light Our Path
Jonathan Bailey
#50. If you know who you are then your ego feels safe instead of fearful, and is more open to exploration.
Julia Woodman
#51. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#52. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#53. The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Laurie Stevens
#54. When ppl say they got ur back. Is like saying I'll pray for u. They don't actually do it. It just sounds good at the moment. Depend on self.
J. Wrice Sr.
#55. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself.
Bruce Lee
#56. A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.
Anthony Liccione
#57. Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.
Hyman Bass
#58. I wasn't crying, but my heart was crying. I wasn't feeling, but my heart was bleeding. Now I am crying, but my heart is healing. I am learning that I know nothing.
Benyf
#60. It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.
Aporva Kala
#61. Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do.
Diane L. Dunton
#64. To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
Marty Rubin
#65. Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders one invisible. I had seen more of myself in that single glimpse of a ghostly image in the pier mirror, not knowing it was I.
Walker Percy
#66. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Ramana Maharshi
#67. To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!
Ivan Turgenev
#68. We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.
Robin Rumi
#69. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
Richie Norton
#70. In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well - ourselves.
Charles F. Glassman
