Self-awareness Quotes

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

- Oscar Wilde

"There’s two buttons I never like hittin’, and that’s panic and snooze."

- Ted Lasso

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"To realise one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for."

- Oscar Wilde

"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

- Oscar Wilde

"I'm not really single. I mean, I am, but I have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman."

- Kate Hudson

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"

- Henry David Thoreau

"We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose."

- Shaun David Hutchinson

"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself."

- Anne Lamott

"You need to give yourself permission to be human."

- Joyce Brothers

"One mistake is all they see."

- Joyce Rachelle

"Unless you have not realized your mistake, you have not done it"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF."

- Mandy Hale

"If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU."

- Mandy Hale

"It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It seemed to me that the desire to get married — which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women — is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge, which is to be single again."

- Nora Ephron

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude."

- Warsan Shire

"The most profound relationship you can ever have is the one you have with yourself."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself."

- Warsan Shire

"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."

- Shirley MacLaine

"Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you."

- Omkar Phatak

"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

- Oscar Wilde

"The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself."

- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

"Your exam results don’t define you, but they can shape you."

"A single exam doesn’t define you, but your attitude towards it does."

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it."

"An independent woman knows that she is the author of her own story and has the power to write a compelling narrative."