Quotes About Introspection

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

Trials teach us what we are.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

People who keep journals have life twice

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.