Quotes about Self-awareness

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride.

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, and haughtily to despise others.

we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This

For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy—this pride is innate in all of us—unless by clear proofs we stand convinced of our own unrighteousness, foulness, folly, and impurity.

Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind.

For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.

It is a great thing to know your vices.