Quotes About Introspection

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long, and I'm not talking in terms of things like success. It frightens me sometimes

You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.