Quotes About Who You Are
- “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” — Muhammad Ali
- “That you are here—that life exists, and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” — Walt Whitman
- “We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.” — Wendell Berry
- “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” — Carl Sagan
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” — Walt Whitman
- “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” — Emily Dickinson
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” — Maya Angelou
- “You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.” — James Baldwin
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
- “You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison
- “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” — Audre Lorde
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur so quietly that it is as if nothing at all had happened.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” — Frida Kahlo
- “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” — Rumi
- “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances.” — Zora Neale Hurston
- “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved…” — Jorge Luis Borges
- “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” — Simone de Beauvoir
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others.” — Frederick Douglass
- “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu
- “In the end, we all become stories.” — Margaret Atwood
- “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh
- “I am rooted, but I flow.” — Virginia Woolf
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” — Gabriel García Márquez
- “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” — Ralph Ellison
- “The only journey is the one within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver
- “You are what you believe yourself to be.” — Paulo Coelho
“Become who you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” — Bruce Lee
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to someone else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” — bell hooks
- “I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” — Malala Yousafzai
- “i am mine. before i am ever anyone else’s.” — Rupi Kaur
- “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.” — Jim Morrison
- “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” — Beyoncé
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” — Rumi
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
- “Know, first, who you are; then adorn yourself accordingly.” — Epictetus
- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath
- “The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know the answer, the world will tell you.” — Carl Jung
- “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” — Bob Dylan
“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” — Michelle Obama
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl
- “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.” — Brené Brown
- “He who has light within his own breast will not need to seek another light.” — José Martí
- “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers
“This above all: to thine own self be true.” — William Shakespeare