Self Awareness Quotes (Uplifting Quotes to Inspire You to Do More)

Filed in Quote by on September 1, 2022

Self-awareness enables a person to become more aware of their strengths and areas for development to live a better life. To awaken oneself is to be self-aware. Knowing yourself, your potential, what you can achieve, and how to live are all necessary for awakening. Get motivated by these self-awareness quotes.

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Self Awareness Quotes

Keeping track of your beliefs, controlling your stress, and having the ability to focus on your thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are all parts of self-awareness or the concept of your individuality. Read on to get inspired!

1. As you become more clear about who you are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you, the first time around. – Oprah Winfrey

2. “You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

3. “But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountains, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small.” -C.S. Lewis

4. “We sat still and we held our breath. For our face and our body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt no pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straight and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.” -Ayn Rand

5. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. – Ernest Hemingway   “Self Awareness Quotes”

6. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. – Eric Micha’el Leventhal     

Truth Quotes

7. It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight, you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon. – C. JoyBell C.

8. You make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. – C.G. Jung

9. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” ― Janis Joplin

10. I don’t fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way. – C. JoyBell C.

11. People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, and awareness of their relationships – not only with each other but with life and the ecosystem. – Deepak Chopra

12. Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. – Lawrence Bossidy

13. “Look deeply into your disappointments, examine your heartache, interrogate your longing, probe your loneliness, meditate honestly on the elements of love of which you are still ignorant, and you will discover that the void within you is already filled with the desire for fulfillment. Your yearning itself is an internal guidance system that is moving you to become a lover.”

14. “Mortality is a different state of being. You become more aware of time. I was content as a naiad. I lived in an unchanging state for what must have been many millennia, never thinking of the future or the past, always looking for amusement, always finding it. Almost no self-awareness.”

Inspirational Quotes

15. ″ It also is becoming obvious that those who avoid the painful encounter with the unseen are doomed to live a [prideful], boring, and superficial life.”    “Self Awareness Quotes”

16. “No, I was wrong; I didn’t jump off the roof because I wanted to be like the Dauntless. I jumped off because I already was like them, and I wanted to show myself to them. I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.” -Veronica Roth

17. Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don’t mean self-consciousness where you’re limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns. – Tony Robbins

18. “Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,

19. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” -Dale Carnegie

20. Without self-awareness we are as babies in the cradles. – Virginia Woolf

Positive Vibes Quotes

21. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” ― John Lennon

22. “We’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying: Is that all? Is that all I want? Is something missing?” -Mitch Albom

23. “Maybe my problem isn’t that I can’t go home. I will miss my mother and father and Caleb and evening firelight and the clack of my mother’s knitting needles, but that is not the only reason for this hollow feeling in my stomach.

24. “Maybe I’m not so different from everyone else after all.” -Sharon M. Draper

25. I think… you still have no idea. The effect you can have. – Suzanne Collins

26. “The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow yourself to be exposed to how you really feel.” ― Turcois Ominek

27. “Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.” -Harper Lee

28. “A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.” -Khalil Gibran

29. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ― Michel de Montaigne   “Self Awareness Quotes”

30. “The reason we’re such fertile ground for the dark forces of such lies and social manipulation is that we’re dissociated from the genuine light of self-awareness.” -Marianne Williamson

Motivational Quotes

31. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton

32. The roles in my life – partner, mother, teacher, researcher, leader, entrepreneur – all require me to bring my whole self to the table. We can’t be ‘all in’ if only parts of us show up. If we’re not living, loving, parenting, or leading with our whole, integrated hearts, where doing it halfheartedly.” -Brené Brown

33. “Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

34. “He was trying to convince himself that he wasn’t guilty.”

35. Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,

36. “No matter the situation don’t let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” ― Turcois Ominek

37. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” ― Marcus Aurelius

38. I am who I am; no more, no less. – Terry Goodkind   “Self Awareness Quotes”

39. I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. – Steve Toltz

40. “The truth, of course, was that it was all my own self, and my own impiety had divided me against myself. My sin was all the more incurable because I did not think myself a sinner.” -St. Augustine

41. “Do not impress others at the expense of your progress.” ― Gift Gugu Mona

42. “Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.” ― Amit Ray

Encouragement Quotes

43. “No matter what happens, always be yourself.” -Dale Carnegie

44. Indecision may or may not be my problem. – Jimmy Buffett

45. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

46. “No one can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” -Khalil Gibran

47. “Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.” ― Toni Sorenson

48. “At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ― Lao Tzu    “Self Awareness Quotes”

49. Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.” -Walt Whitman

50. Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad. – Debbie Ford

51. Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. – Janis Joplin

52. “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” ― André Malraux

53. “Maybe you’re just too pretty yourself to be able to see it elsewhere.” -Arthur Golden

54. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. – Billie Jean King

55. Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,

56. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that. – Deepak Chopra

57. Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others. – Roy T. Bennett

Awareness Quotes

58. “Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don’t realize the real power of words. But I do.” -Sharon M. Draper    “Self Awareness Quotes”

59. By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it. – Lev Grossman

60. “That’s the thing I hated most about Gatlin. The way everyone had something to say about everything you said or did or, in this case, wore.”

61. Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. Know thyself is not a narcissistic pursuit. – Marianne Williamson

62. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. – Michael A. Singer

63. “The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.” -Robert A. Heinlein

64. “Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.” ― Michael A. Singer

Life Quotes

65. “I’m slowly learning how to straddle the tension that comes with the understanding that I am tough and tender, brave and afraid, strong and struggling – all of these things, all of the time. I’m working on letting go of having to be one or

the other and embracing the wholeness of wholeheartedness.

66. Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next.

67. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – C.G. Jung    “Self Awareness Quotes”

68. My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.” -Veronica Roth

69. You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it. – Cassandra Clare    “Self Awareness Quotes”

70. Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted. -Brennan Manning

71. “When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.” -Frank Herbert

72. “Self-awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!” ― Martin R. Lemieux

Self-awareness is the ability to evaluate and understand who we are about the surrounding environment. We hope these inspirational quotes about self-awareness will help you comprehend its importance and how it could help you improve yourself.

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