About Yourself Quotes

473 About Yourself quotes by 377 unique authors

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. — David Foster Wallace
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love… — Jeanette Winterson
Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself. — Sherry Argov
Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember. — Diane Setterfield
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would… — Oscar Wilde
You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be,… — Joel Osteen
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who… — John Green
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. — Thom Yorke
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about… — Mortimer Adler
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty… — C.S. Lewis
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. — Bill Gates
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of… — Athol Fugard
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your… — Warren Ellis
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. — Alan Moore
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said… — Mitch Albom
But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come… — Sue Miller
AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer… — Pascal Mercier
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. — Jonathan Franzen
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? — Jodi Picoult
Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. — Brennan Manning
Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. — Pat Conroy
If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between. — Lori Lansens
You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal… — Elizabeth Gilbert
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… — Jennifer Love Hewitt

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