Knowing Yourself Quotes

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

I'm glad to know that that can happen. That that exists. And we really still care about each other a lot, ... The Road and the Radio.
Kenny Chesney

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
William Faulkner

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

“I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious.
Robert Plant

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Dolly Parton

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles Barkley

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel Castro

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
Cher

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
Titus

“I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.”.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball

I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.
Marc Jacobs

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
Jennifer Aniston

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
John Donne

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
E. E. Cummings

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Ozzy Osbourne

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
Simon Cowell

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.