Quotes About Self-awareness

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Don't like me for who I am? Then you don't like me for who I am. And all you're gonna get is who I am.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.