Quotes about Self-awareness
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
— CS Lewis
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
— Mark Twain
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
— Napoleon Hill
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
— Charles Spurgeon
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
— Charles Spurgeon
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.
— Terri Savelle Foy
I must dispel vanity with vanity.
— Tertullian
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
— Theodore Roosevelt
all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.
— Theodore Roosevelt