Quotes about Self-awareness

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life—as something I have passed, rather than have actually been—and almost think of him as of someone else.

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.

He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

It is always the secure who are humble.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.