Quotes about Reflection

Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.