Best Being Your True Self Quotes

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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

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

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.

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover 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 to know one’s self.