Quotes About Introspection

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Above all things, respect yourself.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

If I am not I, who will be?

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Take inventory of what you have to offer. Place a value on it. Respect it - because if you don't respect what you have to offer it's hard for other people to.

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.