77 Self Awareness Quotes to Understand Yourself Better

Understanding yourself is one of the most important parts of growth, so we’ve put together a list of all the best self awareness quotes to help you look inward.

And if you’re looking for short self reflection sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

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Short Self Awareness Quotes

“There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.” – Frederick Lindemann

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

“Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.” – Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

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

“After all, all knowledge simply means self knowledge.” – Bruce Lee

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

“Self awareness is not the same thing as self approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day dreaming.” – Francis Spufford

“Believe in yourself that makes sense. You should believe in yourself you should believe that you’re capable of great things but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self awareness.” – Timothy Simons

“By becoming self aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.” – Deepak Chopra

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

“Running is a road to self awareness and reliance you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.” – Doris Brown Heritage

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – C.G. Jung

“Robots may gradually attain a degree of self awareness and consciousness of their own.” – Michio Kaku

“Self awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.” – Stephen Covey

“As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.” – William Schutz

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” – Ralph Ellison

“Self awareness allows you to self correct.” – Bill Hybels

“We have self centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.” – Joko Beck

“Self awareness can’t be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.” – Ruben Papian

“Self awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self regulating system doesn’t need it in order to be successful, or even smart.” – David Brin

“Self awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.” – Bauvard

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

“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

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” – Jodi Picoult

“Self awareness is value free. It isn’t scary. It doesn’t imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.” – Deepak Chopra

“Fear is self awareness raised to a higher level.” – Don DeLillo

“You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.” – Kazuo Ishiguro

“In the light of calm and steady self awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

“No matter how much we ask after the truth, self awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.” – Frank Herbert

“Among the earliest forms of human self awareness was the awareness of being meat.” – David Quammen

“I dislike the word self help. Self awareness, yes, but not self help.” – Deepak Chopra

“Self leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.” – Scott Belsky

“Some artists shrink from self awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.” – James Broughton

“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

“Self awareness and self esteem. Those aren’t female issues, those are human issues.” – Curtis Hanson

“A degree of self awareness is extremely valuable. I hope I have that going forward.” – Nick McDonell

“I think there is a place where self awareness becomes self preoccupation if you don’t take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

“One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self awareness.” – Deepak Chopra

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.” – Carlos Castaneda

“The mind’s first step to self awareness must be through the body.” – George Sheehan

“The good news is that humans are gifted by the potential for self awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.” – William E. Rees

“Humility is not about having a low self image or poor self esteem. Humility is about self awareness.” – Erwin McManus

“We must each lead a way of life with self awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.” – Dalai Lama

“Self awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.” – Deepak Chopra

“Self awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.” – Stephen Covey

“Self awareness is a key to self mastery.” – Gretchen Rubin

“Self-awareness is the result of a successful criteria self-identification, something is fundamentally wrong.” – Dan Zahavi

“The problem of self-awareness is not primarily a question of a specific ‘what’, but of a unique ‘how’.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness does not concern the specific content of an experience, but its unique mode of givenness.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is not merely something that comes about the moment we direct our attention at our conscious life.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness in its most basic form, it is not the result of a relational, mediated, conceptual, or objectifying process; rather, it is an immediate, internal and pervasive feature of our consciousness.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness does not confront us with ourselves as transcendent objects, it does not merely differ from prereflective self-awareness by its intensity, articulation, and differentiation, but also by its quality of othering.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness presuppose the presence and intervention of the other and claiming that self-awareness is per se a social phenomenon.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is intersubjectively mediated. To be self-aware is to become an object to oneself in virtue of one’s social relations to others.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is not an object of perceptual attention, it is perceptually recessive.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is to be contrasted with reflective consciousness, that is, or with being introspectively aware of one’s mental properties.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness, the anonymous dimension of subjectivity, the epistemic self-acquaintance, and the egological organization.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is strictly irrelational. Both explicitly acknowledge that the phenomenon of self-awareness has an internal structural complexity that manifests itself in a plurality of ways.” – Dan Zahavi

“Self-awareness is a way of healing from unconscious conflict since it offers an opportunity for the individual to analyze the nature of his or her interpersonal relationships and with the self.” – Socrates

“Self-awareness is valued as the sole pathway to happiness.” – Mu-Mon Kwan

“Self-awareness is nothing more than, utilizing the natural abilities you already possess.” – Rolley Hurley

“Self-awareness approached spirituality with much the same perspective in search, the more insight and knowledge gain, the simpler it seems to get.” – Rolley Hurley

“Self-awareness is understanding the law of attraction that will either begin your journey or it will add to your enlightenment.” – Rolley Hurley

“Self-awareness is becoming independent in thinking, must learn to attract the conditions in lives that adhere to independence.” – Rolley Hurley

“Self-awareness can be thought of as the struggle to bring into conscious awareness that which has been previously out of sight or on the edge of awareness. This can be experienced as a realization that is simultaneously fresh but familiar.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness deepened the ability to relate and develop intimacy of the bodies and their felt senses.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is the potential to expand beyond our immediate consciousness.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is the ability to create, in whatever medium, can enable us to push beyond the concrete and the known into new understandings and experiences.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is to uncover and attend to whatever form it takes in our own lives.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is a process, not an achievement. It describes an ongoing interest in ourselves and others whereby paradoxically, the more attention we pay to understanding ourselves the less self important we become.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is a challenging and serious task, but it is also fun, creative and liberating.” – Chris Rose

“Self-awareness is an opportunity to become an active participant in the creation of entirely new levels that will continue to serve humanity for generations to come.” – Elizabeth Diamond

“Self-awareness allows you to see through the false illusions of the ego and into the true authentic you.” – Elizabeth Diamond