Quotes About Self-awareness

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

I'm not qualified to be a high-profile person.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

I know my qualities.

Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.

I deleted my Facebook account when I was 19 because it didn't bring out good qualities in me. I figured, 'Well my mom's got a Facebook. If people want to find me, they can go through her.'

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

Of course, I know that I have some qualities. I think I can run a lot, that I'm physically well but if I have other qualities I will leave other people to speak about me.

I know my game and I know my qualities.

Of course I knew when I was young that I had some qualities, physically.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I was, at one point of time, known as the mast-mast girl, and though I must admit it's something I had no qualms with, I've moved on now.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.