Quotes about Self-reflection
When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.
— John Owen
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
— John Wooden
When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can't properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
— John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
— John Wooden
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
— Marianne Williamson
Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.
— Napoleon Hill
As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.
— Chip Ingram
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this
— Henry Ford
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
— Marcus Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
— Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
— Cicero