Top 50 Know Yourself Quotes

I don’t know if there is a ‘lack’ of good black men. But when you haven’t taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can’t possibly find that person for you because you don’t even know what you’re looking for.

By the time you’re 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn’t go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

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

I don’t think anybody should get married before they’re 30. You’re too young to really know yourself.

I’ve always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you’re in your 40s and you’re kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn’t be getting questioned.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

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

Once you really know yourself, can’t nobody tell you nothing about you.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We’re living with the Arabs; we have to understand them… Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what’s important. And when you do that, things just don’t get in your way. You don’t allow them to.

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.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you’re so consumed with that, you really don’t have time to know yourself. That’s surviving and getting by.

In stand-up, you do need to be having fun up there, like Richard Pryor said, but you have to know yourself well, too… You start learning, and it’s like playing a piano. You know exactly what keys to stroke, ’cause really, with comedy, you’re, like, fiddling with people’s souls.

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.

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.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

You’ve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

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.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It’s exactly what it sounds like.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we’d custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one’s individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you’ve probably never done before.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

The fashion world is so interesting because it’s always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

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

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.

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.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

The most difficult thing in life is 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.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

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

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.

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.

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.

Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do… Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.

You know yourself; you gotta know your seasons. There be certain seasons, it’s telepathy.

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