Quotes About Self-awareness

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Learn what you are, and be such.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.