Oswald Chambers Quotes

What you are comes to you.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I think self-discovery is the greatest achievement in life, because once you discover yourself and accept what you are, then you can fulfil your true potential and be happy.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'