Quotes About Self-examination

There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I pick my nose quite a bit.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

In the end one experiences only oneself.

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. But that soul was itself lean, monstrous, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of this soul! So my brothers, tell me: What does your body say about your soul? Is not your soul poverty and filth and miserable self-complacency?

dearest—every person is a prison and also a recess.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?