Quotes about Self-awareness
You are constantly invited to be what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).
- Randy Alcorn