This collection of quotes about finding yourself is for anyone who wants to explore the world and learn more about themselves in the process. Whether you’re just starting out on your travels or have been exploring for years, these quotes will inspire you to keep seeking out new adventures and learning opportunities. So go ahead – get lost in the world! You never know what you might find waiting for you around the next corner.
Quotes About Finding Yourself & Self Discovery
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.
Thomas Szasz
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
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
Robert Brault
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.
Tina Lifford
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
Theodore Roethke
Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.
H.W. Shaw
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.
Robert Holden
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
Henry Miller
Find yourself and you will find your freedom.
Gillian Duce
Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates
You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light.
Rumi
Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.
Bonnie Zackson Koury
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Thomas Browne
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
Lykke Li
It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.
Jason Behr
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost.
Avicci
Finding yourself can affect how you think about your appearance.
Edith Bowman
We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.
Kristin Martz
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself, you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
Myles Munroe
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
This above all: 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
When you’re telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn’t know.
Roy Conli
Stop living someone else’s definition of happiness and start living your own.
David Paul Vosburg
And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
John Muir
By discovering nature, you discover yourself.
Maxime Lagace
As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity.
Charlie Chaplin
Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams.
Hal Elrod
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung
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
Whatever it takes to find the real you, don’t be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
Stephen Richards
When we find a purpose that is bigger than ourselves, we become more powerful in our ability to create.
Jack Delosa
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
Hermann Hesse
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
Thaddeus Goals
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Rumi
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
Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.
Arianna Huffington
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Doug Hammarskjold
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
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne
Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.
Bonnie Zackson Koury
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 Gilles
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
Rumi
Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.
Sonny Long
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem
At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Mohammad Ali
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
When you don’t know your purpose, make the journey your purpose.
LeAura Alderson
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
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
Carl Jung
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
Rick Warren
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
Dale Carnegie
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
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
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
Voltaire
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.
Kellie Elmore
A Final Word
Whether you’re exploring a new city or venturing off the beaten path, travel is an amazing way to find yourself. As you wander and get lost in foreign places, you learn more about who you are and what you want from life. We’ve shared some great quotes on self-discovery, but we want to hear from you!
What’s your favorite quote about finding yourself? Leave a comment below and let us know.
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Originally Published: October 8, 2020
