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Let these Self Awareness quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self Perspective
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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