Self Awareness Quotes

"Being aware is the first step to understanding the depth of life as it happens to you." "You need to understand your own personal branding." "Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time." "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action" "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any" "Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard" "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." "The world is my idea." "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "Freedom is the essence of self-consciousness." "To be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do." "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it" "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen" "Once you drop all your ideas and simply listen, there is enormous possibility for transformation."