Quotes About Self-awareness

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

Only commit to things you know you can accomplish because they're incredibly important to you. Otherwise, you set yourself up for continued failure.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I believe much of our lives is about guilt management.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.