Quotes About Self-examination

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

It's too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It's revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful." Chapter 14 · Page 122 · Location 2188

Não é dos outros, caro Brutos, a culpa, mas de nós mesmos, se nos rebaixamos ao papel de instrumentos» - in Julio Cesar de William Shakespeare

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realized how fraudulent were its foundations. The belief that I would spend the rest of my time on earth lying to people weighed heavily on me and at such times I gave serious consideration to taking my own life.

When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

Cartoonist Henri Arnold said, "The wise man questions himself, the fool others.

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The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

I was tired of being me.

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

Is his manhood a sham? Does he love himself or hate himself? I don't think he knows. Or it changes minute to minute. Or the question is so implicit in everything he does that he can't get outside it to answer

The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.

I don't have to watch the evening news to see that the world is bad, I only have to look at myself.