Quotes about Self-awareness
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
- Thomas Merton
Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
- Brian Tracy
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
- Elbert Hubbard
An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
- AW Tozer
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
- Carl Jung
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
- St. Augustine
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
- Ellen White
So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.
- John Eldredge
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
- Carl Jung
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
- Thomas a Kempis
No man is great if he thinks he is.
- Will Rogers