Quotes About Introspection

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.