Quotes about Self-awareness

No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference—or will it just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life? Could there be something I need to see in a deeper, more fundamental way—some paradigm within myself that affects the way I see my time, my life, and my own nature?

The greatest battles we fight are in the silent chambers of our own souls.

The futility of bad-mouthing, bad-thinking, put-downs, and accusation becomes very evident when they think in terms of only having a short time to live. Principles and values become more evident to everybody

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

Don't get into a blaming, accusing mode. Work on things you have control over. Work on you. On be

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it—immediately. Don't get into a blaming, accusing mode. Work on things you have control over. Work on you. On be.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Only when you have the self-awareness to examine your program—and the imagination and conscience to create a new, unique, principle-centered program to which you can say "yes"—only then will you have sufficient independent will power to say "no," with a genuine smile, to the unimportant.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.