Quotes About Self-awareness

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.