Quotes About Yourself

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

“be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.”
― Jennifer Aniston

“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
― William Faulkner

“If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.
If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.”
― Laura Baker

“[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii)”
― Sarah Breathnach, Moving On: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance

“I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!”
― Lynn Flewelling

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.”
― Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic

“You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.”
― Edward Bloor, Taken

“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
― Meryl Streep

“When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.”
― Carol Channing

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?

Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.

Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.

Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.

Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Either you will be you or you will not be at all.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,
you will find that there are many wisdoms came out of truth.
In the end, you must find truth and define your own wisdom.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.
Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.
Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

“When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

“Be who you are,nobody likes to be copied!”
― Morgan Musseau

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“What does infinity mean to you?
Are you not infinity and yourself?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“If you are only what you are,
You at least have a chance
Not to outsmart,
But be on a par with yourself
And that is worth trying.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun