Being Honest With Oneself Quotes & Sayings

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Edward Benson

I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife. — Gillian Flynn

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give. — J.P. Moreland

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept. — Mary Pipher

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world. — Anne Beatts

All is well that ends well — Emily Rodda

He light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand. — Mark Frost

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. — Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him. — Muhammad

In general, one must have value oneself in order freely and willingly to acknowledge value in another. This is the basis for the requirement that modesty accompany all merits, as well as the disproportionately loud praise for this virtue which alone, among all its sisters, is always added to the praise of anyone distinguished in some way by the person who dares to praise him, so as to conciliate the worthless and silence their wrath. For what is modesty if not false humility which someone with merits and advantages in a world teeming with perfidious envy uses to beg the pardon of those who have none? Someone who does not lay claim to merit because he in fact has none is being honest, not modest. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective. — Bill Mills

How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket? — Woody Allen

There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this.
I will triumph over you. — Julie Berry

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. — Iris Chang

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do. — Bruce Lee

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it.

Understanding and experiencing are the same thing.

For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness BUT I can't do it.

Firstly, replace "I can't do it" with:
I am choosing to remain in the state of being of ignorance (misinformation), because I believe it to be the best option I can choose from.

Secondly, replace "I understand the importance of forgiveness" with:
"I do not understand the importance of forgiveness".

Being honest with oneself is the first step to self-understanding. — Raphael Zernoff

Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-"
He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know."
"I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you."
"That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified. — Cassandra Clare

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed. — James Anthony Froude

When silence is God's only voice,
And waiting on Him my only choice,
A banner of faith I humbly raise
And offer a sacrifice of praise.
Though answers He may not impart,
Forever I can trust His heart. — Kathy Herman

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. — Voltaire

I think that generally, being honest with oneself and others about what you are or are not capable of doing can counteract that feeling of lack of self-confidence. — Dalai Lama XIV

The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself. — Richard Rohr

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? — John Keats