Quotes About Self-awareness

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

A wound not fully felt consumes from the inside. We must run very hard if we want to stay one step ahead of this pain. Exhausted, we try to bury it with drugs, alcohol, overwork, television, physical activity. We are a very creative species—we can use just about anything to anesthetize ourselves. But in doing so, we also remove ourselves from feeling the joy.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul's desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Break your bad labels instead of living in them.

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

A hero is one who wants to be himself .

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Jean Jacques Rousseau was at least right about this: better to face up to one's chains than to deck them with flowers and pretend they are not chains." ? Os Guinness, A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

Those of us who have the nerve to call ourselves Christians," W. H. Auden said in a sermon, "will do well to be extremely reticent on the subject. Indeed it is almost the definition of a Christian that he is somebody who knows he isn't one, either in faith or morals.