Quotes about Self-awareness

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

One day I was in the movie world with its glamour and then when I looked at it realistically and realised my shelf life was over, I was out of it all, setting up office somewhere.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.