Top 100 Understand Yourself Quotes
#1. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal Mercier
#2. In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.
Louise Erdrich
#3. Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.
Robert Adams
#4. To understand yourself, try to understand a flower and then emulate it.
Debasish Mridha
#5. If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni
#6. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.
Neal Stephenson
#7. Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
Paul Schrader
#8. Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.
Luke Rhinehart
#9. It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#10. What is the point of life except to gather more experiences and to understand yourself?
Jaym Gates
#11. When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable ...
Rajneesh
#12. You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There's somewhat of a self-discovery.
Shahid Kapoor
#13. Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Mary Baker Eddy
#14. A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself
Anonymous
#15. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
#16. How do you explain something that you can't even understand yourself?
Nicholas Sparks
#17. More people are watching your life and ... are gaining strength in their own lives and in their own challenges because of what you're going through. I promise you: your life matters, your life is significant, and things are happening that you don't even fully understand yourself.
Jeff Goins
#18. The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
#19. The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Thomas A Kempis
#20. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others.
Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.
Shunryu Suzuki
#21. You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.
James Allen
#22. If you can understand the purpose of a small tree, you will be able to understand yourself and become free.
Debasish Mridha
#23. You can never get a true measure of a person - you can never fully understand yourself, even - because life is always throwing new things at us.
K.M. Shea
#24. The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.
Gina Charles
#25. Go in search of your Gift. The process of finding ourselves is called Love. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.
Paulo Coelho
#26. To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
Kevin Spacey
#27. Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way.
(From 'Voyage to Happiness')
Sanchita Pandey
#28. If you don't want anyone to misunderstand you, go into yourself and thoroughly investigate and understand yourself. No one will ever misunderstand you ever again.
Hong Curley
#29. There is no one in the world that can best understand you the way you understand yourself. It only take you to make the best of you.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#30. Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
Katherine Paterson
#31. The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Vernon Howard
#32. To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
Confucius
#33. You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Jonathan Tropper
#34. It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.
Arca
#35. I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#36. 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
#37. If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.
Sri Chinmoy
#38. If it's a phase, so what? If it's your whole life, who cares? You're destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you've got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you've been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love.
Gabby Rivera
#39. If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination.
M. Scott Peck
#40. To understand humanity, you must first understand yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
Forrest Curran
#42. You have to understand yourself before you can understand anything else.
Amy Zhang
#43. To fully accept someone or something, means that you understand yourself enough to trust your own judgement and intuition, with this understanding full acceptance is inevitable and the next step possible.
Nityananda Das
#44. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.
Paulo Coelho
#45. If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#46. The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
#47. It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
Wislawa Szymborska
#48. When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.
Penelope Mitchell
#49. Till you understand yourself, you can't deal with anybody else.
Patience Johnson
#50. It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.
John Leguizamo
#52. The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
Tariq Ramadan
#53. Love knows no classification whether you are rich, poor, minority, famous, man, woman, or whatever you have been labeled. Love is love and is for everyone.
To understand your soul is to understand yourself.
Michelle E. Faulkner-Mullins
#54. The most powerful tool you have is your mind, which is a gift from God. Use it to question your limiting beliefs, use it to understand yourself, and use it to love yourself the way a loving mother loves her child.
Cynthia Belmer
#55. How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.
Ravi Zacharias
#56. I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible.
Christopher
#57. The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.
Swami Satchidananda
#58. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Shunryu Suzuki
#59. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
Jane Wiedlin
#60. Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#61. You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A.S. Byatt
#62. I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
Kajol
#63. Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.
Art Alexakis
#64. When you understand this - and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" - you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.
Martin Luther
#65. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?
Louis De Bernieres
#66. The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#67. There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
Dominic Cooper
#68. The outside world will never understand that submission is not subjugation to another person, it's letting yourself be free of all those things that hold you back from experiencing the greatest sexual pleasures.
Michelle Hughes
#69. I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?
Emily Blunt
#70. You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#71. When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.
Leon Brown
#72. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#73. Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.
Peter Jackson
#74. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.
Robert Anthony
#75. Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself.
Greg Egan
#76. Then forgive yourself!" she shouted, pushing herself back up. She pressed her palm against the wall for support. "Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it. Don't you understand? Lira's exploited hers, but not you. Not you, Emery Thane.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#77. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
#78. I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
Nora Ephron
#79. 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
#80. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee Child
#81. When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.
Sarah Ruhl
#82. Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered. "Though you got yourself a biker who fills his Levi's so well he should be in Harley Davidson ads and has an off-the-charts ability to give pleasure so you can't really understand my pain.
Kristen Ashley
#83. I think that in general
well, at least it's true for me
you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.
Sam Lake
#84. I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
Kevin Hart
#85. The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
Nhat Hanh
#86. I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#87. I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
Jodi Picoult
#88. Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.
Louisa May Alcott
#89. You've certainly mellowed out ... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?
Hiromu Arakawa
#90. It's flabbergasting. I can understand if you have your legs spread and you're pushing yourself into the camera - that's sexually erotic. But the sensual contours in the male or female shape? Come on, guys, relax.
Helena Christensen
#91. Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things usually work out, and if they don't, you can always tell yourself it was only a book.
Kim Church
#92. Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.
Rudy Wiebe
#93. Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
Gayle Forman
#94. Remind yourself that in this night you will face many challenges. But you have to face them and understand it 100 percent ... Obey God, his messenger, and don't fight among yourself where you become weak, and stand fast, God will stand with those who stood fast.
Mohamed Atta
#95. I find it sad that too many do not understand themselves, or their potential. They don't even take the time to get to know their unconsciousness. You can truly learn so much, by simply getting to know the "you" that is behind the reality of yourself.
Lionel Suggs
#96. What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
Freya Stark
#97. There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
Ali Vincent
#98. He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never to stop laughing at yourself.
S.J. Kincaid
#99. I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.
Jermain Defoe
#100. Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
Zig Ziglar
