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Quotes about Self-discovery

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become
- Norman Vincent Peale
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
- Norman Vincent Peale
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
- Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- Oprah Winfrey
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
- Oprah Winfrey
No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you home.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.
- Oprah Winfrey
The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again
- Oprah Winfrey
When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.
- Oprah Winfrey