Quotes About Reflection

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no 'day before'.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself