Self Awareness Quotes

When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot take charge without taking accountability, and you cannot take accountability without understanding how you avoid it.

~ Loretta Malandro

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.

~ Michele Rosenthal

We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting an eyelash. The great teachers. The great emancipators. My God. I can't even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddamn preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he'd break his chair over my head

~ J.d. Salinger

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

~ Mitch Albom

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

~ Robert Henri

Recognize that there's something AMAZING about you. Everyone has something that comes very natural for them - natural gifts and talents. That gift/talent is that thing or things that comes easy for you, but hard for most. The greatness that is stored within was given to you, because it was meant to be used. Whether you've been running from it or haven't discovered it yet, it's there. It's your job to discover and master it. It wasn't given to you in vain, it's part of your purpose.

~ Yvonne Pierre

The eye of your mind—your intelligence, the eye of your heart—your conscience, and the eye of your soul—your instinct.

~ Melissa Mcphail

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

~ Sara Levine

What did she do that made her happy? The question implied action, a conscious purpose. She did many things in a day, and many things made her happy, but that, Claire could tell, wasn’t the issue. Nor the only one, Claire realized. Because in order to consciously do something that made you happy, you’d have to know who you were. Trying to figure that out these days was like fishing on a lake on a moonless night—you had no idea what you would get.

~ Erica Bauermeister

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

~ Samuel Beckett

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

~ Melina Marchetta

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

~ Idries Shah

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

~ Thaddeus Golas

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

~ Vernor Vinge

As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.

~ Cory Basil

Was this new self awareness a gift or a curse?

~ D. Morgenstern

While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.”- The Tapestry of Spirit

~ Erik Paul Rocklin

The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like actors that come on and off stage. But our consciousness, the stage itself, is always present to us.

~ Trey Parker

We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? You can no more disconnect from the universe and it's inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean.

~ Dan Harris

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

~ Nick Mcdonell

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

~ Francis Spufford

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

~ Deepak Chopra