Top 100 Quotes About You Know Yourself
#1. Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even when you think you know everything about them and they you, and you live in each other's souls.
Even then you know nothing about them at all.
Jenny Colgan
#2. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.
Yoshitaka Amano
#3. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#4. You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#5. To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.
Michelle Obama
#6. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#7. Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
Tatiana Maslany
#8. Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#9. the silent witness is that level where you know yourself, without regard for what others think they know.
Deepak Chopra
#10. You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.
Sarah Monette
#11. In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.
Colum McCann
#12. Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
Henri Nouwen
#13. The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.
Michael Angarano
#15. Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
Rod Stryker
#16. There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.' Just really being prepared gives you a lot of confidence.
Jon Jones
#17. By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.
Kimberley Nixon
#18. Introspect.
You know yourself more each day,
Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#19. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
Hope Alcocer
#20. The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
Erik Erikson
#21. Kids always know what's going on, even before you know yourself sometimes.
Cecelia Ahern
#22. When you know yourself, mirrors turn to glass.
Girish Kohli
#23. When you know yourself - your strengths, joys, limitations, and fears - you can live in truth and transparency in all areas of your life.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#24. Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.
Suki Waterhouse
#25. You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.
Byron Katie
#26. The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
#27. What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?
Ahdaf Soueif
#28. When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you ... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.
Sholom Aleichem
#29. Don't Forget The Story "The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." Erik Erikson
Sia Mohajer
#30. When you know yourself, you will be clear within and keep yourself well in check. Thus, there will be no reason for anyone to come and be your opponent. Even if your knowledge is insufficient and you make mistakes, it will not be your fault. Just entrust things to Heaven.
Issai Chozanshi
#31. If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#33. You think you don't need anything," she said. "You think you know yourself completely. Yet, the paradox is that you are on this journey to discover who you really are." "But
Homer Hickam
#34. The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius
#35. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
Sun Tzu
#36. When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.
Nirmala Srivastava
#37. Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#38. I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.
Donald Miller
#39. When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
Ibn Arabi
#41. The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?
Prem Rawat
#42. You think you know yourself so well, but what you end up knowing is the simple things.
Mark Winkler
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. . "You think you know me?"
"Jason," I sigh loudly. "I probably know you better than you know yourself unfortunately.
Rachel Spanswick
#46. Don't even try to argue with your doctor because he knows you more than you think you know yourself.
Euginia Herlihy
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Know God, and you know yourself;
know yourself, and you know the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#56. 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
#57. Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
Peter Farrelly
#58. If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.
Bill Bowerman
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
Deepak Chopra
#62. You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?
Sam Lipsyte
#64. If you know yourself and don't have a belief that other people are better than you, then you simply can't feel jealous or threatened.
Roberto Hogue
#65. The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#66. It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.
Robert Breault
#67. If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner
Ridley Pearson
#68. When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.
Bryan Cranston
#69. Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.
Deepak Burfiwala
#70. Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.
Rajneesh
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#75. Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.
Valerie Frankel
#76. When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.
Joe Calzaghe
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#80. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Lucinda Williams
#81. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#82. Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Billy Childish
#83. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.
Louise Colet
#84. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#85. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.
Scarlett Johansson
#86. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#87. There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
Tracy Chapman
#88. You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
William, Saroyan
#89. You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.
Michael Ende
#90. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. Because you know how to enjoy things. Because you don't deny yourself. Because you let yourself feel pleasure and want. And that's the kind of person who likes gifts. The kind of person who knows how to enjoy life.
Lauren Blakely
#92. I don't know. I guess I'd just like to see you live one day for yourself.
Jessica Brody
#93. You'll never truly know what alone is, until you're on the brink of death with no one to rely on. But after finding the strength to save yourself, you realize that the person you'll ever need is yourself.
Gabriel Common
#94. Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.
Gabrielle Zevin
#95. I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.
Jennette McCurdy
#96. In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
Dan Rather
#97. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse
Jack Kerouac
#98. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.
Lisa Belkin
#99. When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."
Jenna Marbles
#100. Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.
Hannah Hart
