These authentic self quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging authentic self quotes, authentic self sayings, and authentic self proverbs.
Famous Authentic Self Quotes
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~ Carl Jung
- “To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” ~ e. e. cummings
- “Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.” ~ Kristin Hannah , Finding your authentic self quotes
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“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~ Ben Okri
- “The authentic self is the soul made visible.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
- “Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.” ~ Stephan A. Hoeller
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“The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” ~ Brené Brown
- “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.” ~ Ralph Smart
- “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 , Your true authentic self quotes
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“Just be your authentic self because there’s nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.” ~ Carol Leifer
- “The real rub is finding that authentic self and it’s not something that’s going to come to you overnight.” ~ Paul Guilfoyle
- “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ~ May Sarton
- “Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.” ~ Mary Pipher
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“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~ Socrates
- “I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don’t let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that’s real love.” ~ Idina Menzel
- “I’ve always tried to stay true to my authentic self.” ~ Katie Couric
- “I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “This above all; to thine own self be true.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.” ~ Phil McGraw
- “The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think… The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.” ~ Ayn Rand
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“There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” ~ Don Coppersmith
- “Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.” ~ Danielle LaPorte
- “This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness, suicide, murder – all kinds of crime.” ~ Rajneesh
- “The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.” ~ Rosemary Radford Ruether
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“Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions.” ~ David Simon
- “I’m the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.” ~ Donald Miller
- “Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed “ecstasy,” not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving… toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI
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“Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!” ~ Sheri Fink
- “Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.” ~ Brennan Manning
- “We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg
- “When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.” ~ Andrew Cohen
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“I’m a sucker for, like, an endearing man who’s like standing in his authentic self.” ~ Teresa Palmer
- “Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.” ~ Michael Beckwith
- “I believe one of our souls’ major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it’s safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It’s only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.” ~ Sue Thoele
- “Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.” ~ Gabrielle Roth
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“The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than “I need to lose 30 pounds.”” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you’re supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you’re headed. Don’t wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It’s the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.” ~ Andrew Cohen
- “I feel inauthentic at a party. … Going to a party is a ‘low’ activity – the authentic self is compromised, fragmented – one plays ‘roles.’ One isn’t fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn’t (can’t) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn’t literally tell lies.” ~ Susan Sontag
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“When you find your authentic self, your identity – your true identity – how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they’re going oh my gosh.” ~ Paula White
- “Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we’re protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we’re doing is burying our authentic selves alive.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “I have – often say to people that you really don’t get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they’re going to interpret that and what it means to them.” ~ Anita Hill
- “Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you’ve believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.” ~ Sue Thoele
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“We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we’re embraced for who we are.” ~ Brené Brown
- “PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves.” ~ Norman Buckley
- “You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires is the heart of a warrior. Self control is not for the timid. When we want to grow in it, not only do we nurture an exuberance for Jesus Christ, we also demand of ourselves a hatred for sin.” ~ Edward T Welch
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“Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.” ~ Andrew Solomon
- “And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you’re not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence. For me, they were simply my own reality at that point in my life. What I was trying to reveal was my inner soul in all its fragile complexity. Without knowing it, I was trying to peel back the layers that shroud and bind us all as we struggle to reveal our own authentic selves.” ~ Joyce Tenneson
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“Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it’s about passion: it is about loving what you do…tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.” ~ Ken Robinson
- “The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child’s authentic self to a parent s needs.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of “how do we find our authentic selves?” And that we all – whether we’re actors or not – perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?” ~ Annette Bening
