self-awareness quotes

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All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Thomas Sowell

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Taylor Swift

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

LeBron James

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Joel Osteen

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

David Byrne

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Joel Osteen

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

LeBron James

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Matthew McConaughey

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

Muhammad Ali

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Maya Angelou

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Maya Angelou

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

LeBron James

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

Greta Thunberg

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Joe Biden

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Conor McGregor

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Maya Angelou

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Joyce Meyer

We are wiser than we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Joe Biden

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Dolly Parton

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Taylor Swift

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Joel Osteen

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Taylor Swift

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Noam Chomsky

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Muhammad Ali

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Dolly Parton

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Robert Kiyosaki

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Taylor Swift

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Noam Chomsky

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Muhammad Ali

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao Tzu

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Joe Biden

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Dolly Parton

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Conor McGregor

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao Tzu

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

William Shakespeare

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Bill Gates

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Maya Angelou

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Paul Auster

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Matthew McConaughey

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Bill Gates

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Muhammad Ali

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Christopher Hitchens

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Lady Gaga