Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Self Awareness. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Self Awareness Quotes And Sayings by 83 Authors including Lailah Gifty Akita,Bonnie Marcus,Sunday Adelaja,Ruben Papian,F.h. Bradley for you to enjoy and share.
Self-love, self-esteem. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead. -- Bonnie Marcus
knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings -- Sunday Adelaja
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start? -- Ruben Papian
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. -- F.h. Bradley
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. -- Julia Alvarez
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone. -- Octavio Paz
Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment ... -- Jacqueline Ripstein
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others -- Nadine Gordimer
Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness. -- Raphael Zernoff
When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself. -- Walter Terence Stace
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. -- George Sheehan
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. -- Deepak Chopra
A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair. -- Nathaniel Branden
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. -- Ramana Maharshi
Know thyself because what else is there to know? -- Sarah Connor
Knowing yourself lets you understand others. -- Jenny Holzer
We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general." -- Abraham Maslow
Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot -- Bruce Lee
The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self. -- Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there
in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands. -- Louise J. Kaplan
A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life. -- Kimberly Elise
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process -- Albert Bandura
There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment. -- Margaux Bergen
To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. -- Ilyas Kassam
Your inner knowledge of yourself is what matters -- Sunday Adelaja
Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself. -- Charlotte Kasl
Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way... -- Assegid Habtewold
Feel what I feel within myself - that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts - or ideas realize the thing that they are - -- Marilyn Monroe
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization. -- Frederick Lenz
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. -- Deepak Chopra
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. -- Deepak Chopra
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ... -- Flannery O'connor
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
This self-knowledge is the foundation for becoming the wise, compassionate, and peaceful person you have the capacity to become. So how do we do deeply know ourselves? -- Cindy Wigglesworth
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life. -- Deepak Chopra
In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter -- Johann Georg Hamann
Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you. -- Allen Parker
Wisdom begins in knowing the self. -- Abhijit Naskar
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. -- George V. Higgins
Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them. -- Auliq Ice
We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back about us, how they view us, what kind of person they think we are and so on. -- Jacqui Stedmon
Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process. -- Matthew Donnelly
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful. -- Rajeev Kurapati
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs. -- Antonio Damasio
Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic. -- John Milbank
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect. -- Maria Konnikova
A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect. -- David Schnarch
We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it. -- Ilchi Lee
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft. -- Sean Penn
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. -- John Dewey
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To see ourselves as others see us! -- Agatha Christie
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others. -- Gordon W. Allport
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds. -- Paul Twitchell
Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right? -- David Louden
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know. -- Alan W. Watts
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself. -- Joe
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. -- Eckhart Tolle
One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. -- Bernard Baruch
The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves. -- Ariel Garten
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. -- Carl Jung
In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. -- Kevin Kelly Do The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
Ego means "I am this body mind" ...
Clarity realise "I am That"
Whereas in real Just awareness is ...
Be Happy and keep smiling ... -- Satish Kumar
Self-realization is great. -- Corey Feldman
Seek to know thyself by means of thyself, keeping thy mind, intellect and senses, under control; for self is thy friend as it is also thy foe. -- Anonymous
The self cannot be self without other selves. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. -- Abraham Maslow
Be conscious of who you are it will make you to be conscious of others -- Thabiso Monkoe
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions. -- Eckhart Tolle
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are. -- Ruben Papian
Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
Self-esteem, self confidence -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive. -- Tara Brach
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. -- Nikola Tesla
Self Reflection Is the Key To Success -- Marieke Stoop
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ... -- Ellen Glasgow
You know that it's hard work to consistently apply self-awareness, empathy, and self-control, -- Jen Shirkani
No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Belonging to oneself
the whole essence of life lies in that. -- Ivan Turgenev
Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware. -- Abhijit Naskar
Awareness, no matter how confused it may be, develops from every act of rebellion: the sudden, dazzling perception that there is something in man with which he can identify himself, even if only for a moment. -- Albert Camus
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. -- Deepak Chopra
A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. -- Joyce Brothers
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
Most people confuse "self-knowledge" with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities. Anyone -- C. G. Jung
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself. -- Adyashanti
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company -- Geneen Roth
