Quotes about Self-awareness
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
- Coco Chanel
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
- Confucius
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
- DH Lawrence
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
- Anais Nin
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
- CS Lewis
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
- CS Lewis
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
- Mark Twain
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
- Napoleon Hill
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
- Charles Spurgeon
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
- Charles Spurgeon