Quotes about Self-reflection
So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods.
— John Calvin
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
— John Donne
It is a great thing to know your vices.
— Cicero
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
— Mother Angelica
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
— St. Jerome
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
— Brian Tracy
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
— Catherine of Siena
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
— Bruce Lee
Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
— Paulo Coelho
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
— Francis de Sales
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.
— Joyce Meyer