A journey towards self-discovery can really captivate the soul and keep you aligned on your goals. I’ve created this list of quotes to help you tackle the journey internally and externally.
Best Quotes About Self-Discovery
1. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
2. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
3. The longest journey is the journey inward.
4. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
5. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you.
6. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
7. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
8. I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.
9. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
10. All wonders you seek are within yourself.
11. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
12. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
13. 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.
14. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
15. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
16. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
17. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
18. In suffering we find our truest selves.
19. 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.
20. The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.
21. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
22. I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
23. The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
24. 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.
25. The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
26. Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.
27. 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.
28. To find yourself, think for yourself.
29. And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
30. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realising who you are at the deepest level.
31. 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.
32. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
33. Self-discovery often happens when we move out of our comfort zone and change the norm.
34. We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
35. You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light.
36. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
37. Once you’ve started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can’t turn back. The universe doesn’t allow it.