The self quotes on this page are all from sources and authors surnames J through to M. The other pages are: A & B, C to E, F to I, N to R, S & T, U to Z. For positive words of wisdom about the self from unknown sources there is the Self Sayings page.
Self Quotes: J
Hardy D. Jackson
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
I’m going to search for my star until I find it. It’s hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.
Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.
You can’t hurt me, I found peace within myself.
T. D. Jakes 1957
If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
William James 1842 – 1910
There is but one cause of human failure and that is man’s lack of faith in his true self.
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012
As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012
Dear God,
I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love.
Susan Jeffers 1938 – 2012
No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.
Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
Self confidence is… the first requisite to great undertakings.
C. Joybell C.
I am first and foremost me, but right after that I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be is me. But the best gift that I will ever have is being a mother.
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight of many tones of skin. I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so, how can I ever say that I am alone?
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Self Quotes: K
Kabir
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth: listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
The river that flows in you, also flows in me.
Gopi Kallayil
Listen to that tweet from your heartbeat, and listen to that chat request from your brain, and pay attention to that status update from your body. On a daily basis, befriend yourself.
Byron Katie 1942
It’s not your job to like me.. It’s mine.
Sam Keen 1931
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Miranda Kerr 1983
Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.
I am vibrant, healthy and joyful being of light and love.
Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my ‘gut’ instincts.
Jack Kornfield 1945
In the end, just three things matter.. How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.
Sue Krebs
Be willing to open your mind enough to hear your Soul speaking through your heart.
I am a conduit.. I either allow love to flow freely through me, or I don’t. The choice is always mind.
Lose yourself in the beauty of the moment, to see the infinite beauty of your Soul.
Self Quotes: L
Dalai Lama 1935
Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Wally Lamb 1950
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Danielle LaPorte 1969
Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?
Christian D. Larson 1874 – 1954
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Jack Layton
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
Knowing is not enough… We must apply.
Willing is not enough… We must do.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy, not respectable and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly.
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In other words…
To let the Spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
We have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed it is gone forever.
Lorrin L. Lee
Your life is your message to the world… Make it Inspiring.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
Who cannot resolve upon a moment’s notice to live his own life, he forever lives a slave to others.
Charles de Lint 1951
Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Bruce Lipton 1944
The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.
Vince Lombardi 1913 – 1970
Individual commitment to a group effort.. That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Perfection is not attainable. But, if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
Sophia Loren 1934
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Max Lucado 1955
A man who wants to lead the orchestra, must turn his back to the crowd.
Self Quotes: M
Ramana Maharshi 1879 – 1950
You are already that which you seek.
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged, to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Steve Maraboli 1975
I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
Steve Maraboli 1975
I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.
If you hang out with the chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with the eagles, you’re going to fly.
Steve Maraboli 1975
The only permission, the only validation and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.
When I accept myself… I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004
It is extremely important for you to believe in yourself not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
Mary McCarthy 1912 – 1989
We are the hero of our own story.
Robert J. McKain
Become all that you are capable of becoming.
Adam McLeod
The only limits that you have are the limits which you have set for yourself in your own mind.
Margaret Mead 1901 – 1978
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Mencius 372BC – 289BC
The foundation of the world lies in the nation.
The foundation of the nation lies in the family.
The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
Thomas Merton 1915 – 1968
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on Earth, plants something in his Soul.
Our ideas of God tell us more about ourselves than about Him.
We are already one and we imagine we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. Whatever we have to be is what we are.
Henry Miller 1891 – 1980
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Henry Miller 1891 – 1980
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
A. A. Milne 1882 – 1956
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
We are all of us stars… and we deserve to twinkle.
Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
Not being able to govern events… I govern myself.
The greatest thing in the world is… to know oneself.
Anita Moorjani
I am an expression of God or Universal Energy.
My purpose is to be as much me as I can be.
Anita Moorjani
The entire Universe is within me. My answers are inside of me and yours lie within you too.
Christopher Morley 1890 – 1957
There is only one success.. To be able to spend your life in your own way.
John Morton
Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true Soul self is constantly radiating.
Movie
Hugo
I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for a reason.
Pirates Of The Carribean
The problem is not the problem.. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Pocahontas
You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
The Wizard Of Oz
You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
A feeling of happiness is the best injection you can give to your being. It pervades all your systems, all your cells, flows and mechanisms. Happiness is the best remedy and stimulant for your being.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
A journal helps us to live our life time and again. There is no greater life enhancer, life-expander and teacher than a journal.
Be an instrument, a multiplier of God’s blessings.
Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.
self quoteRobert Muller 1923 – 2010
Feel God in your body, mind, heart and Soul. And be convinced of Eternal life.
Feel the all-pervading power of the Universe. Be a crossroads of the cosmic flows. Be an intersection of infinity and eternity, which indeed you are.
Give everything in you and around you a supernatural, Divine, Sacred, miraculous character and you will know untold happiness and pride.
How beautiful it is to be alive and able to say: I am a citizen of this planet, I am a Divine, miraculous being of the Universe.
I am as great as the thoughts I conceive.
I am as great as the Universe I perceive.
I am as great as the love of my heart.
I am as great as the God in my Soul.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.
I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.
self quoteRobert Muller 1923 – 2010
If you had the attention of the entire world, what would you say? Write down your answer, for it will tell you a lot about the purpose of your life and your fundamental beliefs. I would say: I want to contribute to the peace of the world, to be a peacemaker.
If you want to be happy, read and have books on happiness around you. If you want to be a healthy person, read health books and have health foods around you. If you want to be a spiritual person, read spiritual books and have spiritual objects around you.
It is strange that so very few humans are interested in the most stupendous, most miraculous, most unique, most fascinating object on Earth: their own human being. Try to understand your physical, mental, sentimental, spiritual and total life, and you will be astonished beyond belief.
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Never cease to learn life from yourself and from others. Write it all down to perfect yourself and to impart your wisdom to those who will follow.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.
self quoteRobert Muller 1923 – 2010
Open your heart.. That is where your genius is.
Open yourself to God always.. He will tell you what is best for you.
Put a lot of God and Divinity into everything you do.
Tell me who your heroes are and I will know who you are.
The world steps aside when a person comes who knows his way. Please dear reader, know and cultivate yours.
Treat every moment of your life with Divine respect. Love passionately your God-given miraculous life.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010
Try to be beautiful always.. Physically, mentally, morally and spiritually.
Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.
Haruki Murakami 1949
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about..
