Quotes on Being Your True Self

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.