Quotes about Self-awareness

We can evaluate our behavior. We can make decisions about what we need and want. We can figure out what our problems are and what we need to do to solve them.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

There was a time when I was a hothead, and my temper wreaked havoc in my life until I learned to take myself out of the center of the circle. The real key to staying cool and calm is to relinquish selfishness and always consider the feelings of others.

I came to understand that very day that I was always angry because I was selfish. I felt that someone was always infringing on my rights, getting in my space, messing with my things, disregarding my positions, and so on, which offended me, leading to inappropriate behavior. Through wisdom provided by God it dawned on me that I should step outside of the center of the circle so that everything wasn't always about me.

How important it was to learn your own strengths and weaknesses from your mistakes.

Seriously evaluating my gifts and talents—an important step when choosing a career.

After less than a week on campus I discovered I wan't that bright. All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive. Yale was a great leveler for me, because I now studied, worked, and lived with dozens of high-achieving students, and I didn't stand out among them.

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. "She has more than I do.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.

The challenge of a tamed tongue is so great that we'd be wise to give it daily attention in prayer.