Quotes about Reflection
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
— George Washington Carver
Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.
— Anonymous
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
— Anonymous
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.