Quotes About Self-awareness

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

I try my best to keep my feet on the floor and stay humble and let my ability do the talking.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I try to see others as they are and also to show myself as I am.