The self quotes on this page are all from sources and authors surnames U through to Z. The other pages are: A & B, C to E, F to I, J to M, N to R, S & T. For positive words of wisdom about the self from unknown sources there is the Self Sayings page.
Self Quotes: U
Brenda Ueland 1891 – 1985
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and His messengers.
Self Quotes: V
Jac Vanek
You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, and the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, breath of the fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner.
You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and the colours fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode. There are no wrong answers, inspiration is everything. Sit back, relax and take it all in.
Gary Vaynerchuk 1975
You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them of Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
Thomas R. Verny
The notion that genes determine almost everything is incorrect. It is the dynamic interaction between nature and nurture that determines our personality.
Self Quotes: W
Alice Walker 1944
I think writing really helps heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money or what will make fame.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own Soul.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
Do you want your life to truly take off?… Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.
Don’t dismiss the synchronicity of what is happening right now finding its way to your life at just this moment. There are no coincidences in the Universe, only convergences of will, intent and experience.
Feeling is the language of the Soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as who you really are. There is no other reason to do anything.
The Soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings, follow your feelings, honour your feelings.
There is only one reason to do anything… As a statement to the Universe of who you are.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.
Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else’s words about anything that is really important… like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
You are a Human BE-ing.
You are a part of the body of God.
You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence and Divine Love.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the Earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your Soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your Soul.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
You are not the flower, nor are you the fruit. You are the tree and your roots are deep, embedded in God.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
You are what you think you are.
You are your own thoughts about yourself made manifest.
You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it. You are creating your reality every minute.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
Your life is not about your body.
Your light is seen, your heart is known, your Soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked. You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again. You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. You’re doin’ great. So relax. And love yourself today.
Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made – or failed to make.
Your purpose in life is to decide and to declare, to express and to experience WHO YOU REALLY ARE, this is the purpose of all life, that is evolution.
William Arthur Ward 1921 – 1994
Before you speak.. Listen.
Before you write.. Think.
Before you spend.. Earn.
Before you criticise.. Wait.
Before you pray.. Forgive.
Before you quit.. Try.
Before you retire. Save.
Before you die.. Give.
Learn and grow all you can.
Serve and befriend all you can.
Enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward 1921 – 1994
The more generous we are the more joyous we become.
The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become.
The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become.
The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.
Vow to be valiant.
Resolve to be radiant.
Determine to be dynamic.
Strive to be sincere.
Aspire to be attuned.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Wallace Wattles 1860 – 1911
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is… to make the most of yourself.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973
God is what nobody admit to being, and everybody really is.
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical Universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts 1915 – 1973
You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky.. You look in you.
Isaac Watts 1674 – 1748
Love is amazing, so Divine, demand my Soul, my life, my all.
Pauline Webb
I remember a saying my father put in my autograph book when I was a child.. You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.
Simone Weil 1909 – 1943
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Paul Wellstone 1944 – 2002
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
We can remake the world daily.
Macrina Wiederkehr
O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.
David Wilcock 1973
Finding the core of truth within yourself… That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love… Is the greatest Spiritual Attainment you can ever make.
Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
Be yourself… Everyone else is already taken.
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Anthony Douglas Williams
If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the Soul.
Re-energize your soul… Walk with Mother Nature.
Anthony Douglas Williams
The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.
Robin Williams 1951 – 2014
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Marianne Williamson 1952
We are all born carrying a promise – a promise to make the world better – and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
Anne Wilson-Schaef
You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.
Oprah Winfrey 1954
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honour your calling. It’s why you were born, and how you become most truly alive.
You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
Joseph B. Wirthlin 1917 – 2008
No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.
Rachel Wolchin
Every day you spend working on yourself to be better than you were yesterday, isn’t only for you, but the betterment of everyone around you.
We can’t control the filters that others choose when they look at us.
Angela Wood
Everyone we meet, everything we do, every word we speak, every single moment of our lives is important. And each one of us counts for something – to others, to ourselves and for sure to God.
Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.
William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Self Quotes: Y
Adam Yauch 1964 – 2012
Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world, and whatever influence you have. All of it has an effect.
Adam Yauch 1964 – 2012
I think every person has the ability to effect change. Every one of us affects the world constantly through actions… through our every thought, our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We’re constantly affecting the world.
Paramahansa Yogananda 1893 – 1952
Loud or silent repetition of inspiring words has been found effective in various systems of psychotherapy: the secret lies in stepping up of the mind’s vibratory rate.
Self Quotes: Z
Doe Zantamata
Intuition literally means learning from within. Most of us were not taught how to use this sense, but all of us know well that ‘gut’ feeling. Learn to trust your inner feeling and it will become stronger.
Zig Ziglar 1926 – 2012
Be helpful, when you see a person without a smile, give them yours.
Gary Zukav 1942
By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your light.
Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.
