Quotes About Self-awareness

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

He has to come to it on his own.

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!