Quotes About Self-awareness

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

Only I can give myself permission to rest or to overachieve, to pace myself or to run at the pace others expect of me.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.