Quotes About Self-examination

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

The hypocrite is against sin in other people. The godly man is against sin anywhere but, first and foremost, against sin in himself.

And Sophie wrote: "We carry all our standards within ourselves, only we don't look for them closely enough. Perhaps because they are the severest standards.

In the realm of spiritual transformation, the questions we are willing to ask ourselves are more important than the answers we think we know. At

Self-knowledge and self-examination. Parker Palmer makes this very sobering statement about leadership: "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

I don't tell the murky world to turn pure. I purify myself and check my reflection in the water of the valley brook.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.

Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, "delving into the things that lie beneath" and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is to be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely. To

About what am I now employing my own soul? On every occasion I must ask myself this question, and inquire, What have I now in this part of me which they call the ruling principle? and whose soul have I now,—that of a child, or of a young man, or of a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, or of a domestic animal, or of a wild beast?

lowly; but a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it.

What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child's soul, an adolescent's, a woman's? A tyrant's soul? The soul of a predator—or its prey?