We all need to take a step back and reflect on our lives every once in a while. It’s important to think about the choices we’ve made and the paths we’re on, in order to evaluate if we’re happy with where we are. These self reflection quotes can help get you thinking about your life in a more introspective way. Take some time to read through them, and see which ones resonate with you the most. then, take that insight and use it to guide your next steps.
Quotes about self reflection
1.) “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”
2.) “You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it.”
3.) “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
4.) ”The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination… until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.”
5.) “Great leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience.”
6.) “Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”
7.) “It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”
8.) “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
9.) ”It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”
10.) “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
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11.) “There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.”
12.) “Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. What you give out will always return.”
13.) “Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”
14.) ”I visualize where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.”
15.) “Reflection… Looking back so the view looking forward is clearer.”
16.) “Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes.”
17.) “I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”
18.) ”The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
19.) “Self-reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things…. then better yourself.”
20.) “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
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21.) “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
22.) “We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn’t even know it.”
23.) ”Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”
24.) “Self-reflection is necessary to dig beneath our own layers and visit the inner crevices of our heart and mind to develop an understanding of life.”
25.) “The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”
26.) “Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.”
27.) ”One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
28.) “Don’t become too preoccupied with what is happening around you. Pay more attention to what is going on within you.”
29.) “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
30.) “Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
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31.) ”What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
32.) ”The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.”
33.) “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.”
34.) “Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
35.) “When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. ”
36.) ”Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes.”
37.) “Your soul needs time for solitude and self-reflection. In order to love lead, heal and create you must nourish yourself first.”
38.) “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
39.) “If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there’s a million ways to be, you know that there are. ”
40.) ”If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
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41.) “Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.”
42.) “Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.”
43.) “Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”
44.) “Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.”
45.) ”The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”
46.) “The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination… until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.”
47.) “We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”
48.) “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”
49.) “People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.”
50.) ”You cannot have a meaningful life without having self-reflection.”
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51.) “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
52.) “Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”
53.) “These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.”
54.) “I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”
55.) ”Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”
56.) ”Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
57.) “Compare less. Reflect more.”
58.) “What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
59.) ”Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.”
60.) “Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.”
Final thoughts
The best way to learn about yourself is by taking some time for self-reflection. We hope these quotes have helped you see yourself in a new light and motivated you to become the best possible version of yourself. What are your favorite self reflection quotes? Let us know in the comments below!