Quotes About Self-awareness

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

My closest relation is myself.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.