100 Finding Yourself Quotes to Set Financial Goals

The process of finding yourself is one of the most important journeys you can embark on.

When it comes to setting financial goals, it’s helpful to create a vision greater than your day to day habits to create lasting change.

Think about it. Which would be easier?

You think it would be nice to pay off debt versus you need to pay off debt to prepare for your purpose of being a great parent.

Once you find yourself, or align yourself with something bigger than yourself, then you will be able to make lasting changes with your money habits.

It is hard to change your financial habits. When it gets hard, I find it helpful to read some quotes to help take a step back from my life. Then I can better evaluate financial goals.

Here are some quotes to help inspire you to push through the hard financial times and maybe even find yourself with a greater purpose.

Just like personal finance is personal, finding yourself is also a personal journey. What guides me may not guide you and that is the beauty of it!

I hope you find some of these quotes helpful in finding yourself and setting financial goals!

Quotes About Finding Yourself to Set Financial Goals

5. “If you get up, leave the cave, and kill something you’ll be okay.” – Dave Ramsey

6. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

7. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

8. “Your view of yourself determines your view of the world.” – Unknown

9. “There is no excuse for ever ending the process of improving.” – Unknown

10. “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz

11. “If you don’t make decisions for yourself, someone else will make them for you.” -James Altucher

12. “Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.” – Sonya Parker

13. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

14. “All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost.” – Avicci

15. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude

16. “Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.” – Herman Hesse

17. “First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.” – Amos Bronson Alcott

18. “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Epictetus

19. “There are three extremely hard things: steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.” – Benjamin Franklin

20. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

21. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

22. “If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.” – Lykke Li

23. “What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you – it’s like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.” – Terrence Rafferty

24. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball

25. “What you fear is inside yourself…The power to do great or terrible things.” – Liam Neeson

26. “You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’” – Mariah Carey

27. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau

28. “A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

29. “Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” – William Butler Yeats

30. “People who fit don’t seek. THe seekers are those that don’t fit.” – Shannon L. Adler

31. “Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.” – Sonya Parker

32. “You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.” – D.H. Lawrence

33. “No one else can make you happy. Happiness is the result of love coming out of you.” – The Mastery of Love

34. “Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.” – Carl Jung

35. “You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.” – Jerry Gillies

36. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine

37. “Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.” – Menander

38. “I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” – Michel de Montaigne

39. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

40. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare

41. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore

42. “The only way to find yourself is when you start being true to everyone around you.” – Unknown

43. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

44. “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.” – Jean-Paul Sarte

45. “You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in splendor of your own light.” – Rumi

46. “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers

47. “Man never knows what he wants: he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

48. “Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?” – Theodore Roethke

49. “Believe in myself and my dreams, not what others believe in me.” -Unknown

50. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates

51. “It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.” – S.I. Hayakawa

52. “If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.” – James A. Michener

53. “Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” – Brandon Sanderson

54. “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.” – Blise Pascal

55. “All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” – James Thurber

56. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” – Jason Pollock

57. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

58. “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine

59. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” – Lao Tzu

60. “Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

61. “For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.” – Clifton Fadiman

62. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright

63. “Go find yourself first so you can also find me.” – Rumi

64. “We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.” – Kristin Martz

65. “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.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

66. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Dr. HOward Thurman

67. “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.” – Voltaire

68. “Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find ourselves.” – Sonny Long

69. “You will never be happy with someone else if you are not happy alone.” – Unknown

70. “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.” – H.W. Shaw

71. “It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.” – Jason Behr

72. “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” – Thomas Browne

73. “Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.” – Bonnie Zackson Koury

74. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

75. “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

76. “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.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

77. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

78. “The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.” – Julien Green

79. “In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.” – Robert Brault

80. “Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.” – Matthew Arnold

81. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” – Maya Angelou

82. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

83. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” – Mahatma Gandhi

84. “Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.” – Robert Terwilliger

85. “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself.” – Mandy Hale

86. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu

87. “I wasn’t searching for something or someone…I was searching for me.” – Carrie Bradshaw

88. “Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.” – Jason Evert

89. “You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.” – Charles de Lint

90. “If you don’t get lost, there’s a change you may never be found.” – Unknown

91. “Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

92. “There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgement, generosity, and unselfishness.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

93. “If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you every acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. – Anonymous

94. “You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.” – Maxwell Maltz

95. “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.” – Mooji

96. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

97. “The man who views the world at fifth the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Mohammad Ali

98. “One does not ‘find oneself’ by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine…who one is and wants to be.” – May Sarton

99. “You never find yourself until you face the truth.” – Pearl Bailey

100. “Our greatest fear in life shouldn’t be failure, but of succeeding at things that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan