Welcome to our collection of Know Yourself Quotes. Self-discovery is a journey that leads us to better understand who we are, what we value, and what drives us. Throughout history, philosophers, thinkers, and individuals from all walks of life have shared their wisdom and insights on the importance of knowing oneself. This page is dedicated to a compilation of profound quotes that delve into the depths of self-awareness, encouraging you to reflect on your own path of self-discovery.
Below, you will find a selection of enlightening quotes that can inspire and guide you on your journey of self-exploration. Whether you’re seeking motivation, clarity, or simply a moment of introspection, these quotes can serve as a source of inspiration. Feel free to use them in your own creative endeavors, whether it’s copying them, incorporating them into images, or enhancing them with stylish fonts. Join us in celebrating the wisdom of those who have delved into the timeless pursuit of knowing oneself.
Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better. Catie Curtis
Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do… Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself. SZA
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people’s voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people’s opinions and took them as gospel. Carmen Dell’Orefice
You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it. Spencer Dinwiddie
I’m realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you’re trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You’ll find the place for it. Nicholas D’Agosto
I’m very driven, and I always have been, but when do you prioritize self-care? It’s so important because even to attain success, you must take time to slow down and get to know yourself first. Beth Behrs
To be a great artist, you have to know yourself, set your sights high and work very hard. Mirella Freni
You know yourself, once you’ve had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it’s not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don’t have one any more. Kate Thompson
Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you’re still trying to get to know yourself. Rhianna Pratchett
You just have to know yourself well enough to know what’s important. And when you do that, things just don’t get in your way. You don’t allow them to. Omarion
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. Sun Tzu
Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you’re able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do. David Belle
You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn’t be getting questioned. Jordan Pickford
You use marketing to see what an audience’s first impression is because that is something you can never really know yourself until you see it. David Nutter
What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up. Yuval Noah Harari
When you’re an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you’re really good at, what you’re kinda good at, what you’re okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you’re capable of, it’s just a matter of opportunity. Bryan Cranston
To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that. Yuna
I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy. Beth Behrs
I realised at Miss S.A. and more so at Miss Universe that it’s important to focus on your strengths and work on your weaknesses to know yourself well. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
I just want to remind people that you know yourself better than anybody else and if you don’t believe in yourself, then who will? Camille Kostek
The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about. Gil Scott-Heron
By the time you’re 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn’t go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university. Kimberley Nixon
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It’s more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own. Bat for Lashes
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Bernard Baruch
Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. Edward Zwick
I’ve spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don’t dress to make other people think that I’m this way or that way. Teddy Sears
I’ve always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you’re in your 40s and you’re kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore. Lisa Edelstein
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me! Anna Kournikova
You’ve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. Samantha Morton
Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it’s getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in. Jeff Bridges
I don’t know if there is a ‘lack’ of good black men. But when you haven’t taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can’t possibly find that person for you because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. Keshia Knight Pulliam
In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up – thicker foundation, more Max Factor, that sort of thing. But you have to know who you are and what you look like: if you know yourself a little bit, you don’t need to follow trends. Francois Nars
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you… Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best. Sholom Aleichem
In stand-up, you do need to be having fun up there, like Richard Pryor said, but you have to know yourself well, too… You start learning, and it’s like playing a piano. You know exactly what keys to stroke, ’cause really, with comedy, you’re, like, fiddling with people’s souls. Tiffany Haddish
I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first. Chadwick Boseman
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. Lee Iacocca
Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me. Arielle Dombasle
Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you. Megan Thee Stallion
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. Toni Collette
If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you’re not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it. Ariel Pink
You know yourself; you gotta know your seasons. There be certain seasons, it’s telepathy. Ghostface Killah
It’s really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself. Yu Darvish
In any competitive environment, whether you’re in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself – who you are and what you’re capable of doing. Edwin Moses
We’re living with the Arabs; we have to understand them… Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better. A. B. Yehoshua
You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it’s extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad. Christian McCaffrey
Everything’s a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself. Peter Farrelly
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart
Know yourself to improve yourself. Auguste Comte
People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you’re more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that’s a really great basis on which to live your life. Alesha Dixon
Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
The best advice Drake’s given anybody is to know yourself. It’s the most important thing to live by. PartyNextDoor
Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It’s exactly what it sounds like. PartyNextDoor
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. Sun Tzu
I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell. Kristen Stewart
Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight. Rita Ora
If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. Shereen El Feki
The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I’d rather hide behind accents and funny walks. Joel Edgerton
As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that’s all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love. Tyga
Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better. Leelee Sobieski
The older you are, the wiser you are. The more comfortable you are in your own skin, the more you know yourself, the more patient you are. I don’t sweat the small stuff any more. Alesha Dixon
You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one. Lobsang Tenzin
You’ve just got to know yourself, and know what you’re worth, and know where you’re going, and know that you can always, always learn more. Zoe Bell
At the end of the day, you know yourself best. Abigail Johnson
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don’t let somebody else tell you who you are. Tatiana Maslany
The fashion world is so interesting because it’s always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself. Yuna
It’s extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model – it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life. Carrie-Anne Moss
It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. Marilyn Monroe
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. Erik Erikson
Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you’re able to make better decisions. Omarion
When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you’re so consumed with that, you really don’t have time to know yourself. That’s surviving and getting by. Fred Durst
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu
You know yourself better than anyone and you have to trust that. Ruel
We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we’d custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one’s individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you’ve probably never done before. David Agus
As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you. Marie Helvin
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be. Marcus Samuelsson
I don’t think anybody should get married before they’re 30. You’re too young to really know yourself. Jeremy London
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway. Debbie Ford
Never be afraid of failure. And don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. Suki Waterhouse
You never know yourself till you know more than your body. Thomas Traherne
