Quotes About Self-awareness

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Knowing others is intelligent. Knowing yourself is enlightened. Tzu chih che ming Conquering others takes force. Conquering yourself is true strength.

And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, "Who I Love" is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?

Only when you know where you are can you have an idea of where you want to go.

Until we recognize where we are, we can never take measures to get to where we should be.

Admitting that you're broken truly is the first step to getting fixed.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.