Quotes about Introspection
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
Use your life to wake you up.
— Pema Chodron
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
— Harold S. Kushner
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
— Dallas Willard
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.
— Will Rogers
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
— William Alexander
An honest assessment of our own capabilities, without conceit and without false modesty, is one of the first essentials of a useful life.
— William Barclay