Quotes about Reflection
The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.
— Andy Stanley
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
— Harry S. Truman
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!
— Herbert Hoover
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
— John Guare
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
— Marcus Aurelius
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
— Cicero
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
— Cicero
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
— Mark Twain
The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.
— Max Lucado
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
— Steve Jobs
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
— AW Tozer