Quotes about Introspection
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
— Henry Ford
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
— Leonard Ravenhill
And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.
— Leonard Ravenhill