Quotes about Self-awareness
I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
- Muhammad Ali
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
- Henry David Thoreau
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.
- Andy Stanley
There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
- LeBron James
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
- Samuel Beckett