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Quotes About Introspection

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
~ John F. Kennedy
I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared
~ Leila Aboulela
I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.
~ Tom Waits
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.
~ Nicole Krauss
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
~ Margaret Mahy
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
~ Robert Frost
We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.
~ Shakti Gawain
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
~ Aldo Leopold
I've questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.
~ Taylor Swift
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.
~ Marjorie Fleming
I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
~ David J. Cook
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
~ Stephen King
With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.
~ Stephen Colbert
I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
~ Danny Boyle
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.
~ George Eliot
I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
~ Claude Monet
I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.
~ Andy Cohen
My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.
~ Ray LaMontagne
And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.
~ Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar