Quotes about Self-reflection

I think you'll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.