Quotes About Self-awareness

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.