Quotes About Self-discovery

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone's love.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.