70+ Finding Yourself Quotes To Inspire You Along the Way

Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

No one is going to rescue you from yourself – your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself, and your life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion that he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

In the end, you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself or the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle.

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover the truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am.’

Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

The only journey worthwhile is finding yourself.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else follows.

I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Don’t worry about finding your soulmate. Find yourself.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. – Lao Tzu

First, find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.

Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.

If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

We accomplish nothing good in life before we find out who we are.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to be.

We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.

By discovering nature, you discover yourself.

To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery –air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘this is what it is to be happy.’

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance. –Brene Brown

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.- Mark Twain.

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back over the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he, who finds himself, loses his misery.

Trust yourself, you have survived a lot, and you will survive whatever is coming.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.

I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

What you fear is inside yourself… The power to do great or terrible things.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one, too.

When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams.

If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never be found.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover the truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and knowing one’s self. – Benjamin Franklin.

All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost.

Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it. —Buddha

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine… who one is and wants to be.