Quotes about Self-awareness

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness.