Quotes About Self-awareness

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

My top tip is to go for makeup that suits you, not what you want to look like.

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

I'm serious—I'm whacked. Running around my entire adult life claiming to be in love with a stranger. If I had a friend like me, I would take her to the nearest hospital and make sure they strapped her down. Why haven't you ever done that?

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. —Buckaroo Banzai

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy.