Self-awareness Quotes

"I can only control my performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day."

- Michael Phelps

"I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person."

- Elizabeth Berg

"Doubt is a killer. You have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got."

- Janis Joplin

"Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others think."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You can’t be hesitant about who you are."

- Viola Davis

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence."

- Gary Zukav

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now, I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Don’t worry if you’re making waves just by being yourself. The moon does it all the time."

- Scott Stabile

"Everyone is a Moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads."

- François Mauriac

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."

- Franz Kafka

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."

- Margery Williams

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."

- Bernard M. Baruch

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

- Buddha

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

- Albert Einstein

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

- Bruce Lee

"All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self-knowledge."

- Bruce Lee

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

- Bruce Lee

"For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."

- Bruce Lee

"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge."

- Bruce Lee

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

- Bruce Lee

"I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world."

- Lois Lowry

"You are NOT your thoughts."

"Listen to what you say about yourself. Would you talk to a friend that way?"