Self-awareness Quotes

"No need to force yourself to do something the “right way” if it’s not your right way. Your job is to honor your process."

- Andi Cumbo

"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."

- Meryl Streep

"Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’ Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken."

- Amy Poehler

"Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear."

- Patricia Fuller

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of."

- Joss Whedon

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

- Thomas Mann

"I write to discover what I know."

- Flannery O'Connor

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Remember who you are. You are my son and the one true king. Remember who you are."

- Mufasa's Ghost

"You have forgotten who you are, and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the circle of life."

- Mufasa's Ghost

"Simba, you have forgotten me. You have forgotten who you are and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba, you are more than what you have become, you must take your place in the circle of life. Remember who you are, remember."

- Mufasa

"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."

- Samuel Johnson

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

- John McKay

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb."

- Knute Rockne

"The aphorism, 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,' not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."

- James Allen

"It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time."

- Alexis Ohanian

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."

- Katharine Hepburn

"The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything."

- Vivienne Westwood

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts."

- Brian Tracy

"Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become."

- Heraclitus

"Self-discipline starts with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do."

- Napoleon Hill

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can overthink anything. There are always negatives. The more you know, the less you tend to do something."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You cannot win the war against the world, if you can’t win the war against your own mind."

- Will Smith

"The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected, and internalized values."

- Stephen Covey

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave."

- Remez Sasson

""You're finally retired, so you can finally be the 'morning person' you always pretended to be on Zoom… or not. Your call.""