Self-awareness Quotes

"I had my eyes opened. I came to realize that I had more to offer this world than just making things that blow up."

- Tony Stark

"I Can’t Control Their Fear, Only My Own."

- Wanda Maximoff

"I can't control their fear, only my own."

- Wanda

"We're all mad here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"But I don’t want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can’t help that, said the Cat. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. How do you know that I’m mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here."

- The Cheshire Cat

"My armor was never a distraction or a hobby, it was a cocoon, and now I'm a changed man. You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, but one thing you can't take away… I am Iron Man."

- Tony Stark

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."

- Lewis Carroll

"And how do you know that you're mad? To begin with, said the Cat, a dog's not mad. You grant that? I suppose so, said Alice. Well then, the Cat went on, you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

- Lewis Carroll

"Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else."

- Lewis Carroll

"But it's no use now, thought poor Alice, to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"

- Lewis Carroll

"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort."

- Dolly Parton

"My weaknesses have always been food and men—in that order."

- Dolly Parton

"People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there."

- Dolly Parton

"People say, 'how you stay looking so young?' I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup."

- Dolly Parton

"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!"

- Dolly Parton

"I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm just a simple country girl."

- Dolly Parton

"I never felt I belonged. Never belonged in my whole life, even as a little kid. I was just different and so I never really found my place till I moved to Nashville and got in the music business. That was my real place, so I fit in."

- Dolly Parton

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Whenever I get really nervous, I start laughing uncontrollably. That helps me."

- Maame Biney

"Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different, just try hard to be you."

- Zendaya

"It’s like you want me to be a puppy again, but I’m not a puppy, I’m me."

- Bluey

"Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success."

- Dwayne Johnson

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."

- Thomas Merton

"You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football."

- Maurice Jones-Drew

"My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character."

- Lorde

"I only act like I know everything."

"Like the most stunning of sunsets, your soul is filled with the most beautiful colors."