Quotes About Self-awareness

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it's always going to make you remember who you are.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.