Quotes about Self-awareness

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy, even when she was sad. And that's important.

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.