Self Awareness Quotes - Page 3

• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Awareness, Feels, Persons

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• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Understanding, Feelings

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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  He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Positive, Attitude

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.41

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• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

  Daniel Goleman

  Smart, Emotional, Self

  "The Weeping, the Window, the Way: Will Suffering Make You Bitter Or Better?". Book by John O. Dozier, 2010.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.

  Wayne Dyer

  Giving

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.13, Hay House, Inc

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• The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Stress, Skills, What Matters

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

  Boethius

  Confidence, Ignorance, Men

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

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• You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

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• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Being Yourself, Law, Finding Yourself

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• I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.

  Glennon Melton

  Thinking, Self, Quitting

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2013). “Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

  Rollo May

  Self, Wish, Weight

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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

  David Brooks

  Distance, Humility, Thinking About You

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sexy, Inspiration, Self

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• That which is creative must create itself.

  John Keats

  Creative, Awareness, Endymion

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.226, e-artnow

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• Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

  Daniel Goleman

  Perseverance, Block, Emotional

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.100, Bantam

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• Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

  Ruben Papian

  Self, Essence, Looks

  Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.6

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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.

  Mooji

  Mean, Self, Imagination

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• Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• You have to know that your real home is within.

  Quincy Jones

  Real, Self Esteem, Home

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• A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Feeling Sad, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.119, Diversion Books

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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