Quotes About Self-awareness

Whatever thoughts you have about yourself aren't who and what you are. There is something more primary that is watching the thoughts.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

A camel never sees its own hump.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture. Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

To see ourselves as others see us!

It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

They all fuss about me so," she said. "They rub it in that I'm an old woman." "And you don't feel like one." "No, I don't, Jane. In spite of all my aches and pains–and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just like a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it.

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.

dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But nobody relishes the process.

What they need," said Griselda, "is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's." And