Quotes About Self-examination

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

As I'm sure you know, whenever there is a mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take a look at yourself. Even though we all know what we look like, we all like just to look at our reflections, if only to see how we're doing.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us all perhaps; or something he put there himself, creating it over time and unwittingly just as he created his face, his life, the stories he lived by, the ones that let him go on living.

What I found was a moment where the main character has to figuratively look at himself, as in the mirror. He is confronted with a disturbing truth: change or die.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

I'm ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers. Mr. Darcy

There is nothing people are so often deceived in, as the state of their own affections.

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

Why she did not like Jane Fairfax might be a difficult question to answer; Mr. Knightley had once told her it was because she saw in her the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself; and though the accusation had been eagerly refuted at the time, there were moments of self-examination in which her conscience could not quite acquit her.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

The mirror is the conscience of women they never do a thing without first consulting it.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.