Self-awareness Quotes

"Make sure your own worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."

- José Ortega y Gasset

""Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.""

- Vaclav Havel

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers."

- John P. Loughrane

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."

- Lao Tzu

"Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the true Self at all."

- Osho

"What we are looking for is what is looking."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all."

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Come home to yourself."

- Robin Casarjean

"Consciousness dwells in you, as you."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Consciousness is closer to you then you are to yourself."

- Meister Eckhart

"Never was there anything outside of you. Never shall there be. The infinite expressed, a celebration to discover, YOU are the ONE."

- Harry Palmer

"My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can’t control how they’re going to look. I can only control how I look."

- Ronnie Coleman

"Do not let yourself be contaminated by others’ ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking."

- Kai Greene

"Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you."

- Jack LaLanne

"I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying."

- Rita Rudner

""People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.""

- Will Rogers

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

- Lily Tomlin

""You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.""

- Ethel Barrymore

"You are master of the moments of your life."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"‘Going home’ is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity."

- Jean Vanier

"Beautiful has never been my goal."

- P!NK

"I have no idea why anyone likes me! I am very polarizing. It’s either absolutely love or absolutely can’t-be-around-for-more-than-three-seconds."

- P!NK

"My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me."

- P!NK

"Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand – a snarl."

- P!NK

"People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I’m ‘so tiny’, and secondly that I’m ‘so sweet’. They seem surprised that they’re not scared of me."

- P!NK

"In the heat of battle, you find your true self."

"The only bird that can hover is the one that knows where it stands"

"Your true nature is like the hummingbird's: vibrant, energetic, and unbound"