Quotes About Self-awareness

She knew she was deliberately finding flaw with everything about herself, and finding very little to celebrate. She second-guessed everything she said and did.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

You are your own best judge. And the best advice I can give is, if you have even the slightest doubt, if you're even thinking of asking yourself or me or anyone else if you're really ready, you're probably not ready.

Realizing your potential is gone—that's pretty bad. But the worst thing is being okay with that.

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

Most of us can't accept that the gig is ours, so we lurk around, we tug and scratch at ourselves as if in borrowed skins, and never fully belong to the moments that can steadily add up to nothing a lot quicker than you think.

I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel." (Sookie Stackhouse)

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I'll never be an average woman.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong of me, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.

I had what amounted to an emotional hangover.

that gloomy kind of mood where you remember all of your mistakes and none of your good decisions

People say maybe I could have got better performances out of myself or I could have a got few more fights out of myself if I looked after my body a little bit more but at the end of the day it was because I was jack the lad.

Sometimes you forget that you are people's hero as well. People do look up to you and I'd forgotten that because, to me, I am just a normal lad.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

I wasn't a ladies' man.

To say I wasn't such a hit with the ladies would be a very kind way of putting it. I was a slow burner, shall we say.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.