Quotes about Self-awareness

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

You can't do everything, so focus on your strengths.

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks.

Change begins on the inside.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.