Quotes About Introspection

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

My success is not who I am.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.