Quotes About Self-awareness

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.