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I found Einstein's quote of "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

and Eleanor Rooselvelt's "You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do."

and Henry David Thoreau "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

These were the best ones I found, but if you know of something better please let me know. also, which one out of the threee do you like best? thank you!

The quotes you have are very stellar.  The Thoreau one is particularly powerful.  I have added some quotes below in italics with some preceding thoughts.  Hope you “discover” your own voice on this one!

In linking self identity/ discovery to natural growth:
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. 
-    Anais Nin

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker

Asking and discovering questions can lead to answers beyond our wildest dreams:
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet


The journey into self is a powerful one:
All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle?  A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.  ~William Butler Yeats

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.  ~Matthew Arnold


The closing thoughts are here and summarized in philosophical fashion:
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.
~Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~Buddha