Self-Awareness quotes
Welcome to our collection of quotes on Self-Awareness. Self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is an essential aspect of personal growth and development, as it allows us to gain insights into our strengths and weaknesses, desires and motivations.
Self-awareness is a journey of self-discovery, a process of becoming more conscious and attuned to our own inner world. It involves taking a step back from our daily lives to reflect on who we truly are and what we want to achieve. By developing self-awareness, we can make more informed decisions, forge deeper connections with others, and find greater fulfillment in life.
Within this collection, you will find a diverse range of quotes from renowned philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, and everyday individuals. These quotes offer wisdom, inspiration, and guidance on how to cultivate self-awareness. Whether you are embarking on a personal growth journey or simply seeking a moment of reflection, we hope these quotes will help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.
Explore the pages within this category to immerse yourself in the words of wisdom from those who have explored the depths of their own self-awareness. Their insights may resonate with your own experiences, enlighten you, or even challenge your perspectives. May these quotes be a source of inspiration and guidance on your path towards self-awareness.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorA mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorThe only people who know about me are people who would know about me.
Tommy Smothers
— ComedianWhen you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
Antonio Machado
— PoetBeyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerI'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
Kathleen McGowan
— Historical Novelist Weaving Spirituality & HistoryIt is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.
Peter Deunov
— Spiritual Teacher & PhilosopherWhat sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerDon't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorI know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterIt is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorTo use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostIf I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerIn every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.
Jimmy Dore
— American comedian, political commentator, and YouTube personalityTurn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Craig Stone
— English footballerMy eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostI've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorEverybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
Glennon Melton
— American author and activistI think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
Andy Cohen
— American ProducerFollow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Andy Dalton
— American Football PlayerAt the end of the day, you just want to be yourself because people can see when you're not.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
Antonio Machado
— PoetNo one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerI have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestFundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerEgo stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorThere's a conscious decision to everything I do.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterI cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorOne cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerThere's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostReality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI have control issues. For sure, no question.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerA string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorA man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorSelf-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestUntil we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerI know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorEven if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerNo one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorYet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterLike all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWriters are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.
Joyce Carol Oates
— Author...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.