Quotes about Reflection
Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.
— John Maxwell
People with humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.
— John Maxwell
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.
— John Maxwell
I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.
— John Maxwell
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks.
— John Maxwell
experience alone does not add value to a life. It's not necessarily experience that is valuable; it's the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective
— John Maxwell
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
— John Maxwell
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
— John Maxwell
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
— John Maxwell
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it." —Stephen Covey
— John Maxwell
Finish each day and be done with it…. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.
— John Maxwell
Author George Matthew Adams stated, "What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you." Every problem introduces you to yourself. It shows you how you think and what you're made of.
— John Maxwell