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Quotes About Self-awareness

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.
~ Coretta Scott King
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
~ Iris Apfel
I'm not trying to be different. To me, I'm just being myself.
~ Jaylen Brown
I'm not perfect, I'm not trying to be, but it's a constant journey and a process.
~ Perez Hilton
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
~ Lloyd Banks
We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.
~ Ryan Leaf
People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
~ Charlie Munger
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
~ Damon Hill
It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
~ Natasha Lyonne
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
~ Eddie Vedder
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
~ Walter Bagehot
I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
~ Mel Ferrer
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
~ Katharine Hepburn
So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.
~ Jeremy Sisto
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
~ Wynton Marsalis
You get on the tube and you notice everyone's looking at you, and you're like, 'What's on my face?' It always takes me a couple of seconds to remember I'm on a Netflix show that airs to the entire world.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
~ Hilary Swank
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
~ Adam Grant
You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.
~ Cheryl Burke
I think that being the Bachelorette and being on this side of things, you really have to stay in tune with who you are and follow your gut and follow your heart.
~ Becca Kufrin
Big failures hold better lessons than any success - as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.
~ Bibi Bourelly