Self leadership is one topic with many interesting perspectives. Because it is a personal journey, anyone (really, any human) can contribute expert and helpful insights towards its successful practice.
In this article, you will find some of these quotes curated just for you. Get ready to peek into rich perspectives about self-leadership through the lens of the Bible, as well as other well-meaning individuals.
Areas of Personal Leadership.
To put simply, Self-Leadership is about leading a life — yours.
But what does that even mean?
It is the journey towards self actualization driven by the need to achieve one’s full potential as human beings and an soulful satisfaction of a life well-lived by the end of our time. Abraham Maslow posits Self-Actualization to be the highest need and motivation of Man.
Self-leadership requires competencies in several areas such as self-care, identity, spirituality, self-confidence, habits, time management, etc.
Below are quotes on these topics grouped into what I call the facets of self-leadership. They are;
- Self-Discovery.
- Personal Growth and Development.
- Self-Management.
Related: 31+ Bible verses on Self Leadership to inspire you
Self Leadership Quotes [Complete]
Self Discovery Quotes
Self discovery quotes express inspirations and realizations about the internal, invisible, yet real aspects of the human build. They lead us in search of our true selves; realizing true purpose, finding meaning in daily activities, committing to values central to our sense of being.
Below are quotes about identity, spirituality, and purpose.
1. Personality
1.1. Be YOU.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
1.2. On authentic living.
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.” — Johannes A. Gaertner
1.3. On Self-Acceptance
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.” — Carl Jung.
1.4. Act-on Not Acted-Upon
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. — OPRAH WINFREY
1.5. Power of Identity
Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you end up depends entirely on who you choose to be from this moment forward. – Hal Elrod from Book titled The Morning Miracle.
2. Spirituality
2.1. Look deep within.
Where must we go… we who wander this wasteland in search of better selves? – The first history man
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2.2. You are Spirit
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
2.3. Eternal Effect
What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator
3. Christianity
3.1. God’s love is a fact not a feeling.
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” — C.S. Lewis.
3.2. You are a masterpiece.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. — Ephesians 2:1-10
3.3. A requirement for a relationship with God
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
3.4. Value of God’s family: Love
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.” — Luke 10:27 3.5
3.5 A value called: Hope
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
Self Management Quotes
Self management quotes capture thoughts and ideas around the practices, and traits that help us effectively direct or utilize resources at our disposal. It is also about handling emotional responses and other information gotten from discovery. Self-management is necessitated by the limited nature of man.
Quotes about self management advise on the use of personal resources —mental energy, physical energy, time, and emotions — amidst an ever-growing, never-closing wormhole of needs.
See some quotes on self-care, self-compassion and time management below
1. Self-Care
1.1. Embrace Your Solitude
“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” —bell hooks.
1.2. Prioritize Happiness
“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”
1.3. Self-Preservation
“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”
— Audre Lorde
1.4. Tune down
The more I listen to myself, my body, my feelings, and the less I listen to the “should” and “must” and “to-do” voices, the more I realize my body and spirit have been whispering all along, but I couldn’t hear them over the chaos and noise of the life I’d created. — Shauna Niequist from Present Over Perfect
2. Self-Compassion
2.1. Kindness to Self
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” — Christopher Germer.
2.2. Accept and Revel
“Accept who you are; and revel in it.” — Mitch Albom.
3. Time Management
1.1. Emulate
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
1.2. Focus
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain
1.3. Inefficiency
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn
1.4. Stewards of time.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Self development Quotes
Self development quotes are about developing, building and increasing our resources, talents and gifts for more impact and leverage.
Self- improvement is about stewardship and also about consistent learning and growing. It is working on our weaknesses and sharpening our strengths. When we practice self improvement, we are like an artist chipping away unfinished and unrefined edges, bit by bit, until full realization of potentials.
Personal development quotes outlined below are grouped into topics of self-esteem, self-confidence and the treasures of the Mind etc.
1. Self-Esteem
1.1. Be Yourself
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” — Bruce Lee.
1.2. Inner Strength
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin.
2. Self-Confidence
2.1 Own Your Power
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” — Cicero.
2.2. Unwavering Self-Belief
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” — Norman Vincent Peale.
2.3. Embrace Your Uniqueness
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde.
2.4. Overcome Fear
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
2.5. Preference is Courage
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
2.6. You can wear it
“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” — Blake Lively
3. Habits
3.1. Embrace Change
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain.
3.2. Small consistent actions.
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” — William Butler Yeats.
3.3. Compound Effect
“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.” – James Clear from Atomic Habits
4. The Human Mind
4.1. Judicious use of the mind
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -Andrew Carnegie
4.2. Curiosity
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch.
4.3. Creativity
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
4.4. Imagination
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” — Lauren Bacall
4.5. The Goal.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey
4.6. The Divine Design
“God’s design for the Human mind is to know God and let that knowledge cause a response: a change in the state of the heart and/or induce actions that reflect godly values.” — Achinike Amadi from Use your Spirit to subdue the mind
5. Psychology
5.1. Empathy
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi
5.2. Resilience
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
6. Will-Power
6.1. Double on what counts
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
6.2. Commit to what you love.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs
6.3. On Resilience.
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela.
6.4. Be resolute.
The hardest choices require the strongest wills — Thanos from Infinity war
Conclusion
In conclusion, these Self leadership quotes serve as a powerful reminder of the importance of self-leadership in our lives. They inspire us to take charge of our lives, to believe in ourselves, and to always strive for improvement.
Use them as a source of motivation and encouragement in your personal development and stewardship journey.
