Self Awareness Quotes

"An emotionally intelligent person can be a master of their feelings and an artist of their relationships." "Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action." "Emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it reflects how a person applies knowledge to the immediate situation." "Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood." "Our emotions are like amphibians, equally at home in the water of self-soothing as on the dry land of action." "The single most important factor in job performance and advancement is emotional intelligence." "The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel influences the way you behave." "Know that you are always your own best teacher, and the answers are always right at hand waiting for you to take the next step with courage and faith." "The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom" "We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom" "To laugh is to risk appearing the fool" "To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self" "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible." "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." "The most common form of despair is not being who you are." "Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself " "Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then" "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are" "The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all"