Top 35 Know Yourself Quotes

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

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.

Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you’re able to make better decisions.

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.

To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better.

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.

It’s really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you’re still trying to get to know yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

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.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything’s a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.