Quotes about Self-awareness

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.

Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.

The more you recover your authentic self, the more your destiny will unfold before your eyes. Just keep doing your inner work - that's the most essential thing.