Do you ever feel a little lost or unsure of who you are? These quotes about finding yourself will help you find meaning on your journey of self-discovery. If you’re in need of inspiration to help you figure out your identity, these ‘figuring out life’ quotes are for you!
We’re delighted to share this selection of finding yourself quotes to help you become the best version of yourself. Knowing yourself will make you feel wiser and more content, and empowered to take on life’s challenges.
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Quotes About Finding Yourself
1. “Don`t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.” – Jason Evert
2. “If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.” – Lykke Li
3. “Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.” – Robert Terwilliger
4. “Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic.” – Kim Garst
5. “Find yourself and be that.” – Unknown
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6. “There is more to myself than anyone has so far discovered.” – Unknown
7. “If you lose someone, but find yourself, you won.” – Unknown
8. “It’s not about finding out who you are, it’s about creating who you are.” – Shay Carl
9. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
10. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Epictetus
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11. “When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.” – Stephen Richards
12. “When you make the finding yourself even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light you’ll never forget it.” – Carl Sagan
13. “The day you find yourself will be the most beautiful day, because after that – you will never accept less than what you deserve.” – Ruby Dhal
14. “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.” – Myles Munroe
15. “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” – Mandy Hale
16. “It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” – Mariska Hargitay
17. “Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.” – Bonnie Zackson Koury
18. “Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.” – Kristin Hannah
19. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” – Maya Angelou
20. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” – Lao Tzu
21. “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, and I’m just going to be myself.” – Mariah Carey
22. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
23. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
24. “The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.” – Arianna Huffington
25. “When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.” – Tina Lifford
26. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Gandhi
27. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.” – Gerard Way
29. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha
30. “Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
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31. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen R. Covey
32. “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
33. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
34. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins
35. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
36. “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell
37. “Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.” – Robert Terwilliger
38. “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Elliot
39. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
40. “In the end, you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.” – Robert Brault
41. “I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.” – Carrie Bradshaw
42. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem
43. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
44. “Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.” – Gerard Way
45. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
46. “Who am I? Ask and start your journey within.” – Unknown
47. “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love… by loving.” – St. Francis de Sales
48. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it… The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
49. “Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?” – Theodore Roethke
50. “You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.” – D. H. Lawrence
51. “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.” – May Sarton
52. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore
53. “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.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
54. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao-Tzu
55. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” – Aldous Huxley
56. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
57. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen R. Covey
58. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
59. “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.” – S. I. Hayakawa
60. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
61. “If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.” – James A. Michener
62. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
63. “You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” – Jerry Gillies
64. “You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” – Rumi
65. “Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” – Matthew Arnold
66. “Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” – Brandon Sanderson
67. “The longest journey is the journey inward.” – Dag Hannarskjold
68. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright
69. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
70. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
71. “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine
72. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
73. “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.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
74. “When we find a purpose that is bigger than ourselves, we become more powerful in our ability to create.” – Jack Delosa
75. “Self-discovery often happens when we move out of our comfort zone and change the norm.” – Fola O’Martins
76. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
77. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
78. “I was once afraid of people saying Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am.” – Oprah Winfrey
79. “Find yourself first-like yourself first-love yourself FIRST & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.” – Mandy Hale
80. “The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.” – Elijah Wood
81. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
82. “Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.” – Unknown
83. “You never find yourself until you face the truth.” – Pearl Bailey
84. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
85. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
86. “You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.” – Amy Poehler
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.