The most important thing is to discover your true self. You need to find out what you want to be, what makes you happy. When you get to know yourself, you do not depend on anyone, you decide yourself instead of taking permission from others. Once you know yourself, you will easily understand what you have to do. You will understand the purpose of your life.
Here is a collection of short self quotes that will help you to know yourself.
Best Short Self Quotes
1. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” ― Napoleon Hill
2. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton
3. “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” ― Sun Tzu
4. “Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.” ― Priscilla Presley
5. “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ― Franz Kafka
6. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” ― Marcus Garvey
7. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” ― Brian Tracy
8. “There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” ― Henri Frederic Amiel
9. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” ― Toni Morrison
10. “Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
11. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” ― May Sarton
12. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.” ― Aristotle
Authentic Self Quotes
13. “Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.” ― Queen Latifah
14. “Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.” ― Vanessa Hudgens
15. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” ― Marvin Gaye
16. “Be yourself, but always your better self.” ― Karl G. Maeser
17. “The goal of art was the vital expression of self.” ― Alfred Stieglitz
18. “Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.” ― Brennan Manning
19. “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ― William Shakespeare
20. “Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.” ― Francis of Assisi
21. “Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.” ― Charles Spurgeon
22. “The authentic self is the soul made visibly.” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
Best Short Self Quotes
23. “Be that self which one truly is.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
24. “You should never give up your inner self.” ― Clint Eastwood
25. “A comparison is an act of violence against the self.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
26. “The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.” ― Bryant H. McGill
27. “There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.” ― William James
28. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” ― Robert Hand
29. “What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.” ― Helen Keller
30. “The ultimate mystery is one’s own self.” ― Sammy Davis, Jr.
Self Quotes to take care of yourself
31. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ― Ernest Hemingway
32. “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
33. “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ― J. Krishnamurti
34. “Don’t think about making life better for other people who don’t even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.” ― C. JoyBell C.
35. “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” ― Edward Everett Hale
36. “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?” ― Ayn Rand
37. “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” ― Fernando Pessoa
38. “If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After a while you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” ― Criss Jami
39. “A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.” ― Axel Munthe
Self Quotes to be what you want to be
40. “Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.” ― Patti Callahan Henry
41. “Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self.” ― Tom Bissell
42. “You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.” ― Tonya Hurley
43. “Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.” ― Lolly Daskal
44. “The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.” ― Lolly Daskal
45. “People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in a true sense, they are not satisfied with what they are.” ― Amit Kalantri
46. “Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.” ― Gyalwa Dokhampa
47. “Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect – for our families and our friends, for each other – when the funny thing was, we didn’t have to. In the end, we were better than that.” ― Brenna Yovanoff
48. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” ― Alan Watts
49. “After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.” ― David Levithan
50. “You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!” ― Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Self Quotes to know yourself
51. “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.” ― Melissa de la Cruz
52. “Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
53. “Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes you unique. No, you or I am perfect but we are who we are now and we should continue to move towards that better person God sees us be.” ― Eveth Colley
54. “Teach a person to think and they’ll devise a way to eat for a lifetime.” ― William Robson
55. “You are — your life, and nothing else.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
56. “Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.” ― David Levithan
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