Quotes About Self-awareness

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. We are the instruments of our own performance, and to be effective, we need to recognize the importance of taking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.

I admit this is very hard to accept emotionally, especially if we have had years and years of explaining our misery in the name of circumstance or someone else's behavior. But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Anytime we think the problem is out there, that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

We have conscience—a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and a sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them. And we have independent will—the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences. Even the most intelligent animals have none of these

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

for all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.

I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty." This

One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty.

What? Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know?

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. But if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Do you understand?" "I don't

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth

Our honest belief that we can be far better than we are is one of the major reasons we are so bound.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can't be wounded. Spirit can't be wounded.

interrupting myself and my own dream over and over.

we ourselves do that each day. We use our crayons (our imagination) to scare ourselves instead of to create.

make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

Reinvention begins at the level of thought. Don't let your thoughts think you.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." ~ Richard Rohr