Here are a few of the most motivational self-awareness quotes from famous people. The ability to observe your beliefs, stress levels, and ability to concentrate on your thoughts, feelings, or activities is known as self-awareness. I hope these encouraging quotations about self-awareness will help you see how important it is and will help you improve as a person. Share these self-awareness quotes with your friends, family, and other people you care about to inspire them.
Self-awareness enables a person to more fully comprehend his or her own virtues and shortcomings in order to lead a better life.
Motivational Self Awareness Quotes
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. - Marianne Williamson.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen.
Without self-awareness, we are babies in the cradles. - Virginia Woolf.
Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness. - Erwin Raphael McManus.
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection, and self-awareness as seen by the personality. - Frederick Lenz.
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. - Lawrence Bossidy.
I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. - James Baldwin.
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. - Billie Jean King.
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. - Ralph Ellison.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung.
Self-Awareness Quotes Funny
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, Oh crap, she’s up!’ Unknown
I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. Johnny Depp
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. Maxwell Maltz
L’Oreal’s slogan ‘because you’re worth it’ has come to epitomize the banal narcissism of early 21st-century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love are all available at a flick of the credit card. Geoff Mulgan
One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise L. Hay
It’s not your job to like me…it’s mine! Byron Katie
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. Diane Von Furstenberg
Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness. Ram Dass
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Oscar Wilde
Spiritual Self-Awareness Quotes
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~ Henry Miller
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~ James Thurber
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eugene Ionesco
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ~ Abraham Maslow
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ~ Nathaniel Branden
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. ~ Laozi
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. ~ M. Scott Peck
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~ Aristotle
Emotional Self-Awareness Quotes
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. — Robert Henri
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it. — Benedict Spinoza
Experience is not what happens to you — it’s how you interpret what happens to you. —- Aldous Huxley
Experiencing one’s self in a conscious manner–that is, gaining self-knowledge–is an integral part of learning. — Joshua M. Freedman
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. — David Borenstein
For news of the heart, ask the face. — West African saying
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. — Quevedo
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned. — Buddha
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. — Vincent Van Gogh
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. — Walter Weckler