Quotes About Self-awareness

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn't look in the mirror again.

It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.

You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.