Self-awareness Quotes

"A great man is always willing to be little."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you."

- David McCullough Jr.

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Everybody likes the guy who works hard. Nobody likes the guy who tells you how hard he works."

- Lloy Ball

"It's normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative manner."

- John Wooden

"The most important thing that you can do on this planet - elevate, transform and illumine your own consciousness."

- Carlos Santana

"It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place."

- Angelina Jolie

"There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over. The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that."

- Eddy Merckx

"I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."

- Nicolaus Copernicus

"Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be."

- Elaine MacDonald

"The good coach knows that they may not have all the answers."

- Steve Gold

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached."

- Jim Yong Kim

"The goal of a life coach is to help the client become who they really are by shading who they are not."

- Aiyaz Uddin

"The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"My body, she is my dessert that I trust in enough to leave the playground. And now she's been given the voice that was told to hush. With it, she's learning to listen to the songs of the birds but more importantly the sound of her own powerful hum."

- Lumalia

"It's not sitting in the room solo working on ourselves. It's not who you say you are. You learn who you are unconditionally. Not when life gives you what you want but when life gives you the opposite and that's how you build confidence."

- Shoshanna Raven

"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."

- Walter Gilbert

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool."

- Richard Feynman

"Sometimes our strengths lie beneath the surface."

- Moana

"Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you."

- Tony Hsieh

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you- the first time around."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"Judge me, and you'll have no time left to love me."

- Drake

"When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto."

- Drake

"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."

- Alfred Austin

"When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles."

- Horace Walpole

"I like gardening—it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself."

- Alice Sebold

"I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit."

- Reginald Farrer