Self-awareness Quotes

"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart."

- Julien Green

"The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself."

- Myles Munroe

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."

- Carl Jung

"In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."

- Virginia Woolf

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

- John Milton

"The longest journey is the journey inward."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It’s what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it."

- Kristen Crockett

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours."

- Joyce Maynard

"The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior."

- Andy Smithson

"It is ironic that adults want children to control their own behavior when the adults have difficulty controlling their own behavior."

- Jane Nelson

"Your mind is everything. All the mess causes you stress starts in your head. If you’re weak, it starts in your head. If you are strong, it starts in your head. You make a decision today to be what you wanna be."

- Deion Sanders

"I’ve swum for my country, I’ve swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself."

- Janet Evans

"At the start of each day, I remind myself, my toughest opponent is in the mirror."

- Ryan Lochte

"For myself, losing is not coming second. It’s getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I’ve been in."

- Ian Thorpe

"A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"You are only confined by the walls you build yourself."

- Andrew Murphy

"What's stopping you?"

- Alex Quin

"For the whole first year I felt very inadequate, like “Why am I finding it this hard when everyone else can just do it?” And then you come to find out that people just are afraid to say how hard it is. They’re ashamed and so they deal with a lot of the fear, anxiety, or sadness by themselves. So I also wish for people to be easy on themselves, and to understand that the learning curve is steep, but once you get it, it gets so much easier."

- Mother

"A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all."

- Peter Drucker

"Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself."

- Lisa Nichols

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person."

- Harriet Tubman

"The real self is not something one finds as much as it is something one makes."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you."

- John Green

"You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. You are the observer of your thoughts and emotions."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I don't worry about stress. I create it."

- Jim Mattis

"The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking."

- Wayne Dyer

"Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life."

- Andrew J. Bernstein

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of the darkness, and sometimes in the middle of the darkness, you find yourself."

- Unknown

"I am in charge of how I feel."

- Unknown

"Tu actitud determina tu dirección"