Top 200 Focus On Yourself Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts.”

— Earl Nightingale

152. “Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

153. “If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

— Oprah Winfrey

154. “What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.”

— Eric Thomas

155. “Your inner world reflects your outer world.”

— T. Harv Eker

156. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”

— Isabel Allende

157. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

158. “Life is for me to live my own way.”

— James Hetfield

159. “To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.”

— Mooji

160. “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

161. “Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

162. “All power is from within and therefore under our control.”

— Robert Collier

163. “If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”

— Rumi

164. “The first person you lead is you.”

— John C. Maxwell

165. “This is me. Take it or leave it.”

— Melanie Chisholm

166. “For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”

— Neville Goddard

167. “For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.”

— S. N. Goenka

168. “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”

— Abraham Maslow

169. “Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.”

— Hal Elrod

170. “Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

171. “First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.”

— Leon Brown

172. “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

— Kanye West

173. “Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.”

— Neville Goddard

174. “Don’t be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don’t be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.”

— Bob Proctor

175. “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

176. “Real contentment must come from within. You and I cannot change or control the world around us, but we can change and control the world within us.”

— Warren W. Wiersbe

177. “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself.”

— Madonna

178. “Find your purpose, find your voice.”

— Demi Lovato

179. “Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

180. “There’s an African proverb: ‘When death finds you, may it find you alive.’ Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.”

— Michael Meade

181. “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”

— Abraham Maslow

182. “Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.”

— Timothy Leary

183. “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”

— Rajneesh

184. “If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”

— Pema Chödrön

185. “That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

— Garth Stein

186. “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 therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

187. “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”

— Anaïs Nin

188. “It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

189. “Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.”

— Louise Hay

190. “Don’t expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen...”

— Deborah Meaden

191. “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.”

— Susan Cain

192. “You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.”

— Greg Plitt

193. “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

— Jack Kornfield

194. “Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

195. “Don’t belong to anything. Don’t belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don’t compare or compete. Just Be your Being.”

— Mooji

196. “The Secret is within you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

197. “Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.”

— Jim Rohn

198. “Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.”

— Zig Ziglar

199. “Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being – the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.”

— Shakti Gawain

200. “Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”

— Eckhart Tolle