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This means that self-awareness is what enables you to build a life that is attractive to others. Here are 25 wise sayings to inspire you to be self-aware so that you’ll be motivated to invest in self-improvement.
- The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.” – Julien Green
- “I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” – William Butler Yeats
- “For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.” – Clifton Fadiman
- “The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.” – Cicero
- “I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.” – Michel de Montaigne
- “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” – James A. Froude
- “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine
- “If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” – Daniel Goleman
- “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
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- “Self-awareness is a trait – or maybe ‘practice’ is the more accurate way to put it – that everyone can always improve at. It is part emotional intelligence, part perceptiveness, part critical thinking. It means knowing your weaknesses, of course, but it also means knowing your strengths and what motivates you.” – Neil Blumenthal
- “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” – Billie Jean King
- “‘Know thyself?’ If I knew myself, I’d run away.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”– George Moore
- “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”– Sir Thomas Browne
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – C.G. Jung
- “I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”– Mark Twain
- “I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
- “People should accept being single because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.” – Lauren London
- “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are, undergoes a transformation.”– Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”– Ann Landers
- “There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.”– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”– Aldous Huxley
- Without self-awareness, we are as babies in the cradles.” – Virginia Woolf
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