Quotes About Self-awareness

It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble than one who felt compelled to obey the laws of his own fate?

because neither of us will ever be any different from what we are this minute.

He hated going back to himself as he would have hated putting on a shabby suit of clothes, a grease-spotted, unpressed suit of clothes that had not been very good even when it was new.

Not that I am conservative, but did you know that one drink has the kick of three when you are alone?

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Fancy going out into the world under the impression that you can always have your own way! Would anything be more likely to lead to disaster?

before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia...

You are not," said Norman Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

What am I worrying about? What can I do about it?

Não é possível ensinar qualquer coisa a um homem. Só é possível ajudá-lo a descobri-la dentro de si.

In a flash, I realized I had brought all this miser on myself by trying to fit myself into a pattern to which I did not conform.

Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

Bajulação consiste em dizer a um outro homem justamente o que ele pensa acerca de si mesmo.

So when you and I are tempted to criticize someone tomorrow, let's remember Al Capone, "Two Gun" Crowley and Albert Fall. Let's realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself or herself, and condemn us in return; or, like the gentle Taft, will say: "I don't see how I could have done any differently from what I have.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Humility is not the personal discount that we must offer in the presence of others—against this old interpretation there has been a most healthy modern reaction. True humility any man who thoroughly knows himself must feel; but it is not a humility that assumes a worm-like meekness; it is rather a strong, vibrant prayer for greater power for service

poeta e filósofo Ralph Waldo Emerson escreveu: "Empregue a linguagem que quiser, mas você só conseguirá dizer o que você é.

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

El secreto de ser desdichado estriba en tener ocios para pensar si se es feliz o no".

You will never get into trouble by admitting that you may be wrong. That will stop all argument and inspire your opponent to be just as fair and open and broad-minded as you are. It will make him want to admit that he, too, may be wrong.

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.