Quotes About Reflection

Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.

After you've done a thing the same way for two years look it over carefully. After five years look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over.

If you have no will to change it you have no right to criticize it.

One must lose one's life in order to find it.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road turn back.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

For years I wanted to be older and now I am.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A man's life is what his thoughts make it.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.