Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Self-discovery precedes authentic living.
In plain terms
Know yourself first, then live your truth.
What can you take from it?
Accept who you are before acting.

Where it applies

  • personal growth
  • career decisions

Putting it to work

  • self-reflection
  • honesty

Questions to consider

  • Who have you decided to be?
  • How do you live that decision?

Another view

Identity can evolve while living.

More from Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

    Permalink to quote #8
  2. Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

    Permalink to quote #10
  3. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

    Permalink to quote #7

Related quotes

  1. I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

    Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood quote #1
  2. Dare to be yourself.

    Andre GideAndre Gide quote #19
  3. If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

    Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey quote #21