Top 100 Quotes About To Know Yourself
#1. You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.
Iris Apfel
#2. When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.
Fred Durst
#3. You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.
Terry Kiser
#5. You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#6. Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
Sigmund Freud
#7. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#9. Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.
Georges St-Pierre
#10. I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
Teddy Sears
#11. It is said that I'm distant and cold. I'm just someone who's very shy. I'm not comfortable doing interviews because I have to talk about myself. To talk about yourself, you have to know yourself pretty well and I feel like there are still some shades in me that I don't know about.
Kristen Stewart
#12. The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.
Neale Donald Walsch
#13. If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
Mark McGwire
#14. To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
Marcus Samuelsson
#15. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
#16. The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on ... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!
Sigmund Freud
#17. The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#18. If you live with alertness, you live rightly.
If you live in imitation, you live wrongly.
To me there is only one sin:
And that is not to be yourself.
And to me there is only one virtue:
And that is to know yourself.
Rajneesh
#19. I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#20. Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
Mary Ellen Flora
#21. Learn when to take step back ... At times it gives you a chance to know yourself better.
Adil Adam Memon
#22. When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Leslie Grossman
#23. I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.
Freida Pinto
#24. The only need is to know yourself and look into your heart. There you will find all things. Look for the light that is within you and you will have found God.
Douglas James Cottrell
#25. To get to know yourself better, examine what you really want from life and become true to yourself, Be clear and honest and work hard to make it.
Auliq Ice
#26. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#27. When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.
Sun Tzu
#28. To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.
Ilyas Kassam
#29. A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart
#30. If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Friedrich Schiller
#31. To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
Laozi
#32. Knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.
Laura Dave
#33. Learn to know yourself ... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
Nelson Mandela
#34. To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#35. You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#36. The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.
Enos Mills
#37. I know that you know but you do not know that you really do not know - know yourself. Look within and get to know yourself better.
Amit Abraham
#38. Don't care too much about life, in time you'll learn to know yourself better and better.
Wouter Van Gastel
#39. Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.
CLAMP
#40. To know others is wisdom;
To know yourself is enlightenment;
To master others requires force;
To master yourself requires true strength.
Lao-Tzu
#41. Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself.
Bryant McGill
#42. You can't live your life acting for other people. Other people will just use you up. You have to know yourself and figure out what you want. I can't do that for you. Nobody can.
Mindy Mejia
#43. How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#44. Love helps you to know yourself ... turn your vision inward.
Sathya Sai Baba
#45. I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.
Kristen Stewart
#47. Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.
Leelee Sobieski
#48. It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Marilyn Monroe
#49. The final aim is not to know, but to be ... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.
D.H. Lawrence
#50. Take the time to listen and to get to know yourself. Take the time to change, to grow, to rest. Take the time to say yes, take the time to say no. Take the time to be quiet. Take the time to look after your body, to eat well. Take the time to ask yourself who you are and what you want.
Anne Berest
#51. Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
Luke Watson
#52. In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.
Darren Johnson
#53. If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
Ariel Pink
#54. Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
Gangaji
#55. If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.
Ana Claudia Talancon
#56. 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
#57. Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.
Robin Sharma
#58. 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
#59. The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
Caroline Myss
#60. You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.
Shereen El Feki
#62. To Know others is perceptive,
to know yourself is wise.
To conquer others is forceful,
to conquer yourself is strong.
Lao-Tzu
#63. 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
#64. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
#65. 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
#66. To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.
Stedman Graham
#67. To know yourself means to spend time looking beyond your worldly identities.
Shama Patel
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.
Bill Jensen
#71. Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
Catie Curtis
#72. The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.
Edgar Cayce
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Bruce Lee
#78. You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.
Gil Scott-Heron
#83. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
Don DeLillo
#84. It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.
Andrew O'Hagan
#85. We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
Sarah McLachlan
#87. If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#88. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
Kelly Cutrone
#90. Be careful to know yourself when the time comes," he warned the Little King. "The man who fails the test will run for the rest of his life, with the beast still in his heart.
Ellen Kushner
#91. An axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you
Rodney Hall
#92. 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
#93. I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
Graciela Iturbide
#94. 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
#95. Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.
Rhianna Pratchett
#96. 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
#97. As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
Marie Helvin
#98. Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.
David Belle
#99. 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
#100. What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Jodi Picoult
