Quotes About Self-awareness

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.

In the end you have only you.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.