Quotes About Self-awareness

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

As Lord Chesterfield said to his son: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.

Wanamaker learned this lesson early, but I personally had to blunder through this old world for a third of a century before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticise themselves for anything no matter how wrong it may be.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.

British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

mistakes did I make that time?' "'What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance?' "'What lessons can I learn from that experience?

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

What has habit been doing to me?

When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favour of it. But why not begin on yourself?

Could my opponents be right? Partly right? Is there truth or merit in their position or argument? Is my reaction one that will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration? Will my reaction drive my opponents further away or draw them closer to me? Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me? Will I win or lose? What price will I have to pay if I win? If I am quiet about it, will the disagreement blow over? Is this difficult situation an opportunity for me?

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Son, you are 1500 miles from home, and you don't feel any different, do you? I knew you wouldn't, because you took with you the one thing that is the cause of all your trouble, that is, yourself. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." When you realize that, son, come home, for you will be cured.

No juzgues si no quieres ser juzgado

You deserve very little credit for being what you are—and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are. Feel sorry for the poor devils. Pity them. Sympathize with them. Say to yourself: "There, but for the grace of God, go I.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

People have 1000 times more interest in themselves than in you. So give them time and importance.

most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.