Quotes about Self-awareness

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

No man knows himself as an original.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.