Quotes about Self-reflection
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
— CS Lewis
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
— Charles Spurgeon
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
— Cormac McCarthy
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
— George Eliot
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
— Cicero
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
— Jim Rohn
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
— Samuel Beckett
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson