Self Awareness Quotes

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case?

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.

There've been times when leaders have to make decisions, and if you had read my 360 when I first started as a CEO, it would've repetitively said, "You take too long to make decisions, you're participative and that's good, but you need to move faster, be decisive." And as the years went, that stopped being on my 360 because I think I got more confident and more self-aware that sometimes decisions just needed to be made.

In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to.

A saint is a person who gives of himself totally and freely, without strings. He is neither deaf nor blind. And yet he's both. He's the master of his own reality, the voice of simplicity. The trick is to stay away from mirror images. The only true mirrors are puddles of water.

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.