Quotes About Reflection

The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Don't waste tomorrow on yesterday.

Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Your dominant thoughts from your past have produced your today. Your dominant thoughts today will produce your future.

Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.

Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.