Quotes about Self-reflection
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.
- Etty Hillesum
I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.
- Etty Hillesum
Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
- Andy Andrews
Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.
- Andy Andrews
What is it about me that other people would change if they could?
- Andy Andrews
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind allows itself to be governed.
- Andy Andrews
But if our mornings are faced with courage and wisdom, the past need not be lived again.
- Andy Andrews
You're worse than you thought, but God loves you more than you imagined.
- Andy Stanley
Here's a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don't even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren't even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?
- Andy Stanley
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
- Francis Collins
I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.
- Amanda Gorman
Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.
- Ellen White