Self-awareness Quotes

"My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make."

- Nancy L. Kriseman

"Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves."

- Lawrence LeShan

"Sometimes you find success and sometimes you don’t, but my satisfaction is knowing I’ll always control my effort with my own two hands."

- Dwayne Johnson

"If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection."

- Lecrae

"I'd rather be happy being myself than sad trying to please everyone else."

- J. Cole

"You have no control over what somebody else feels about you, but you have 100 percent control over how you feel about yourself and how you feel about the people around you and how you handle life."

- J. Cole

"I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself."

- J. Cole

"A humble soul does not trust itself, but places all its confidence in God."

- St. Faustina

"How could I wear a crown of gold when my Lord wears a crown of thorns and he wears it for me?"

- St. Elizabeth of Hungary

"Nowhere other than looking at himself in the mirror of the Cross can man better understand how much he is worth."

- St. Anthony of Padua

"I am who I am before God, no more and no less."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"To be taken with love for a soul, God does not look on its greatness, but the greatness of its humility."

- St. John of the Cross

"Satan fears and trembles before humble souls."

- St. Pio of Pietrelcino

"Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies."

- St. Ambrose

"Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes."

- St. Dominic

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."

- St. Augustine of Hippo

"When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing."

- Michael Jordan

"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me."

- S.E. Hinton

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes."

- George Soros

"Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like."

- Will Rogers

"Doubt is the brother of shame."

- Erik H. Erikson

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steven Furtick

"Be you!"

"Do not let the opinions of others consume you. Their rejection doesn’t define your truth."

"A quote’s power lives in how deeply you engage with it."

"The more you listen, the more your mind learns its own value."

"And this is the part where you find out who you are."

"Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck."

"The most fierce competition you'll ever face is the one within your own mind."