Quotes about Self-awareness

I haven't gotten overly confident or cocky. I think staying level and humble has helped me through the bad times and the good times.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become