Marva Collins Quotes

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

I discovered myself!

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.