Quotes About Self-awareness

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Nothing beats being really honest about who you are and what you need. All the rest just works itself out.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.