- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch
- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung
- “Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.” — Baltasar Gracián
- “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” — Lao Tzu
- “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
- “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end—you don’t come to an achievement; you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.” — Brian Tracy
- “To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do.” — Vironika Tugaleva
- “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” — Caroline Myss
- “Self-reflection involves asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and weaknesses, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.” — Robert L. Rosen
- “Self-reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things… then better yourself.” — Sonya Teclai
- “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” — Margaret J. Wheatley
- “In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.” — Marcel Marceau
- “There is one art of which man should be master—the art of reflection.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker
- “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” — Ram Dass
- “Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.” — Pearl Zhu
- “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” — Saint Augustine
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung
- “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” — Albert Camus
- “We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.” — Amy Dickinson
- “Self-reflection is a kind of self-judgment. The difference is that reflection helps us to grow, while judgment helps us to shrink.” — Frederick Lenz
- “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” — Thomas Paine
- “Self-reflection is the ability to witness and evaluate our own cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes.” — Unknown
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom.” — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
- “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” — John Dewey
- “Your soul needs time for solitude and self-reflection. In order to love, lead, heal, and create, you must nourish yourself first.” — Louise Hay
- “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us.” — Carl Sandburg
- “The more reflective you are, the more effective you are.” — Hall and Simeral
- “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.” — Dr. Phil McGraw
- “Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.” — Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
- “Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.” — Baltasar Gracián
- “A man who does not leave his house will condemn himself to believe the whole of the world is his street.” — Paulo Coelho
- “Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.” — Buddha
- “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” — Voltaire
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl
- “Self-reflection is the key to self-mastery. It is the process by which we learn about our own strengths and weaknesses, desires and fears, and the way we interact with others.” — Unknown
- “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” — Billie Jean King
- “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens
- “Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.” — Confucius
- “Self-reflection is the hardest part of being in the workforce. It’s easier to blame others.” — Madeleine M. Kunin
- “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” — Aldous Huxley
- “Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.” — T. Harv Eker
- “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” — John Lubbock
- “True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self-elements. There is no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
- “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” — Marcus Garvey
- “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” — Ralph Ellison
- “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” — Buddha
- “We live in the world when we love it.” — Rabindranath Tagore
- “Self-reflection is the key to living consciously.” — Nathaniel Branden
- “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes
- “Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes.” — Lawrence Bossidy
- “The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” — Thomas Carlyle
- “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi
- “Self-reflection is a desire to connect with one’s inner self and uncover the deep truths that lie within.” — Unknown
- “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.” — Neville Goddard
- “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” — William Shakespeare
- “Self-reflection is a means of turning inward, looking at one’s own behaviors and beliefs, and determining whether they align with personal values.” — Unknown
- “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” — Lao Tzu
- “Introspection is the beginning of reform.” — Unknown
- “Without deep reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” — Albert Einstein
- “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” — Rumi
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” — Buddha
- “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.” — Brian Tracy
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” — Lao Tzu
- “We see the world not as it is, but as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
- “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha
- “He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung
- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.” — Carl Jung
- “Self-reflection is the examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings, a search for deeper understanding of oneself.” — Unknown