Quotes About Self-examination

For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within

Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow.

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

Maybe the problem isn't everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.

I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you've got coming.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.

Want to please God? Then go back over the history that's causing you regret and honestly face every single moment of it.

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The Question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

One of my favorite movies that I've ever seen is '25th Hour.' I love it so much because it's simply about a guy who's going to jail for six years, and this slow, terrible day he has.

We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.

If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions.

One may be humble out of pride.