Quotes About Self-awareness

You don't wake up in the morning and think, I'm going to be so bad today. I'm going to be a nasty villain to everyone. No, you just wake up and do your own thing.

All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.

It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

All limitations are self-imposed.