Quotes About Self-awareness

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

Laim?s žmogui suteikia ne tiek mintis apie sukrapštytus pinigus ir s?kming? veikl?, kiek žinojimas, ko gal?jai sau leisti atsisakyti.

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

Tonight—it is still night, though barely—I don't say a word, because tonight I am watching myself a little and I have always despised the sentimental, maybe because it is a familiar weakness.

Sometimes I catch myself being a person I wouldn't tolerate for five minutes at my own kitchen table. Being a thoughtless, self-centered jerk.

In Fuling I was always extremely conscious of my appearance, because every day I was confronted by the ways in which I looked different from the locals, but now in these desert towns I saw people with noses and hair and eyes like mine. For the first time I realized the full importance of race, not just in the way it divided people, but also in the sense of feeling a link to those who looked like you.

Don't get your ambissions mixed up with your abilities

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.

See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

All a manís ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.

Before his downfall a manís heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than that you should be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,