Self Reflection Quotes

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

  Robert L. Rosen

  Humility, Thinking About You, Reflection

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• Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

  Christopher Barzak

  Life, Positive Thinking, Understanding

  Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam

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• There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Reflection, People

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• Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

  Baltasar Gracian

  School, Reflection, Self

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Judging, Asks

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• When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Philosophical, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Acceptance, Reflection, Journey

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• Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another. The key is to recognize setbacks for what they really are-entry points for learning, not validation that you aren't good enough. After a disappointment analyze your actions, get feedback from friends, and take inventory of what you could do better next time. This type of self-reflection and improvement will ultimately make success inevitable.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Disappointment, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 06, 2011

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• Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reflection, Way, Unintended Consequences

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.262, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
  Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
  You Presume you are a small entity,
  But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
  You are indeed the evident book,
  By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
  Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
  What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• I found the Divine within my Heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, Mosques, Divine

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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• Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

  Carl Sandburg

  Contemplation, Introspection

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• Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Opportunity, Compassion

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• To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

  Ryuho Okawa (2005). “The Philosophy of Progress: How to Develop Infinite Prosperity”, p.9, Lantern Books

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• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Spiritual, Inspirational Love

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

  Peter Drucker

  Reflection, Action, Quiet

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• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Hate, Real

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• Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Madness, Sometimes

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