Quotes about Self-awareness

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.

Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The majority of men never learn that the urge of sex has other possibilities, which far transcend in importance, that of mere physical expression. The majority of those who make this discovery, do so after having wasted many years at a period when the sex energy is at its height, prior to the age of fortyfive to fifty. This usually is followed by noteworthy achievement.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.