Quotes About Self-examination

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS. I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT IS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification.

Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the "accuser" (Revelation 12:10).

What kind of suicide is it to kill in the world what you find in yourself?

Going away is not always so simple—when one takes oneself along.

People really should cultivate the art of talking to themselves. They'd learn a lot about voices if they did.

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Obositul ins Cineva rupea din el cîte puÈ›intel. L-a l?sat decolorat È™i cutremurat, Mirat s-a pip?it dar nu s-a reg?sit. Din el o forÈ›a rea creÈ™tea È™i-l cuprindea. Obositul ins se l?s? cuprins.

It's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.

You are . . . depressed? Bored?" "Are there other feelings?

Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you're a good man.

I didn't set out to be a Trump impressionist at all. It wasn't that I wanted to be Trump. It's that I was asking, 'What if Trump was me?'

It's funny: now we're starting to do interviews, we've just begun to understand what we're doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives.

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.