Quotes about Self-awareness

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.

In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday

Humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?

We hear a lot today about identity theft. The greatest identity theft is not when someone takes your wallet or steals your credit card. The greater theft happens when we forget who we really are, when we begin to believe that our worth and identity come from how well we stack up compared to others, instead of recognizing that each of us has immeasurable worth and potential, independent of any comparison.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than