Top 200 Focus On Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The only way we can change our lives is to change our energy – to change the electromagnetic field we are constantly broadcasting. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how we think and how we feel.”

— Joe Dispenza

52. “Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

53. “Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”

— Esther Hicks

54. “Winning isn’t getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.”

— Roger Staubach

55. “Healing is an inside job.”

— B. J. Palmer

56. “Effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

57. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

— Warsan Shire

58. “Spend some time alone every day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

59. “When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.”

— Bob Proctor

60. “It’s a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.”

— Demi Lovato

61. “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

— David Foster Wallace

62. “The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.”

— Robin S. Sharma

63. “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

64. “Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.”

— Buddha

65. “Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

66. “When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.”

— Marianne Williamson

67. “When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

68. “Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.”

— Judith Orloff

69. “You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? You are not the mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

70. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. “Weakness leaves; pride comes in. Confidence grows. A successful life ensues.”

— Greg Plitt

72. “If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

— Joe Dispenza

73. “If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.”

— Anthony de Mello

74. “Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.”

— Claudia Black

75. “I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

76. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

— Steve Young

77. “We read books to find out who we are.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

78. “True victory is victory over oneself.”

— Morihei Ueshiba

79. “Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

80. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”

— Joseph Campbell

81. “Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”

— Greg McKeown

82. “The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.”

— Arianna Huffington

83. “You don’t have to change who you are, you have to become more of who you are.”

— Sally Hogshead

84. “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”

— William James

85. “What’s behind you doesn’t matter.”

— Enzo Ferrari

86. “Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”

— Ramana Maharshi

87. “Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.”

— Mae West

88. “No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

— Pythagoras

89. “Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can’t let the failure outside you get inside you.”

— John C. Maxwell

90. “Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

91. “I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.”

— Selena Gómez

92. “I’m obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don’t want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.”

— Drake

93. “Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won’t work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.”

— Kimi Raikkonen

94. “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

— Ken Venturi

95. “The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”

— Ramana Maharshi

96. “Be that self which one truly is.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

97. “Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else’s reality while doing nothing about yours.”

— Steve Harvey

98. “Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.”

— Robin S. Sharma

99. “Observe your own life, and you will know the Truth.”

— Acharya Prashant

100. “The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘What am I getting?’ The most important question to ask on the job is ‘What am I becoming?’”

— Jim Rohn