Quotes About Self-awareness

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

If I am not I, who will be?

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.