Knowing Who You Are Quotes

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone’s throat.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it’s about knowing who you are. It’s about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can’t have it.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self – when I wasn’t so manic and desperate.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.