Quotes about Self-awareness
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.
— Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
— Epictetus
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
— Epictetus
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
— Epicurus
Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.
— Eric Metaxas
Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.
— Beth Moore
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
— Marianne Williamson
Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
— Melody Beattie
I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.
— Ashton Kutcher
Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.
— Benny Hinn
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
— Charles Spurgeon