Quotes About Self-examination

Si no te reprochas a ti mismo", dice Saadi, "no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

You cannot deceive the mirror

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —psalm 139:23–24

I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he's doing it because he's doing me. I've been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That's been my hardest battle is the one where it's me versus me.

I am a victim of introspection.

My videos are meant to make people look at themselves at the end of the day. They all have a message.

My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to look at.

That's right—sometimes hell is us. Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

Was it cathartic or a form of self-torture?

Why is it that you've never got the least goddamned clue what's happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn't it bug you sometimes?

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life.

I may be a really bad person but I'm not aware enough to see that I'm a bad person.

Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic.

Observe all men; thy self most.

If you can't find any flaws about yourself, it's because you've stopped searching.