Quotes About Self-awareness

I've maybe gotten broken up with one time, and I like to think that's because I'm a very good girlfriend.

I'm not a good one-on-one player.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.