Quotes About Self-awareness

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.