Quotes About Self-awareness

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

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

I owe all my success to stupidity.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle.