Top 200 Focus On Yourself Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

2. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Self-Belief Quotes

3. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Empowerment Quotes, Effort Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

4. “Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes

5. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Personality Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

6. “To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Personal Development Quotes, Growth Quotes, Smart Quotes

7. “Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.”

— Ashley Judd

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Care Quotes

8. “We are what our thoughts have made us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Personality Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

9. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes

10. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

11. “Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Quotes About Believing

12. “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

13. “Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Practice Quotes

14. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

15. “Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.”

— Gary W. Keller

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Financial Success Quotes

16. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes

17. “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Epic Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

18. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes

19. “Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Path Quotes

20. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes

21. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes

22. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes

23. “Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes

24. “Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Wellness Quotes

25. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Wise Quotes

26. “The only reason men fail is because of broken focus.”

— Mike Murdock

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

27. “If you wish to control others you must first control yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

28. “When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Running Quotes, Exercise Quotes

29. “I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Simple Life Quotes

30. “Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”

— Vernon Howard

Also featured in: Truth Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Honesty Quotes

31. “Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Positive Short Quotes

32. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

— Zeno of Citium

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Self Control Quotes

33. “Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.”

— Charles Bukowski

34. “Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Reflection Quotes

35. “He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

36. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

— Anne Lamott

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Truth Quotes

37. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Imagination Quotes

38. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Deep Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Individuality Quotes

39. “Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Manifestation Quotes

40. “Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.”

— T. Harv Eker

Also featured in: Manifestation Quotes, Positive Mindset Quotes

41. “If you don’t go within, you go without.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

42. “Remember yourself always and everywhere.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

43. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Identity Quotes, Individuality Quotes

44. “You are the architect of your own life.”

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes

45. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Growth Quotes

46. “Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Quotes About Acting

47. “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Vision Quotes, Individuality Quotes

48. “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”

— David Frost

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes

49. “Success does not require you to look out the window, it only requires that you look in the mirror.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes

50. “Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.”

— A. R. Rahman

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Individuality Quotes