Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Self Reflection Quotes
Emotional ControlHuman NatureInner ConflictSelf Reflection We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
ConsumerismHumorIdentityIronySelf Reflection I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
AbundanceAffluenceGratitudeLuxurySelf Reflection I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.
ChangeHabitImprovementPerceptionSelf Reflection Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
GuidanceHopeJudgmentRealitySelf Reflection Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
BoredomConstraintsRevengeSelf ReflectionVirtue Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Personal GrowthRedemptionSelf ReflectionTransformation It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
ConflictLifeLoveResilienceSelf Reflection And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
EnduranceInner ConflictPatienceSelf-AcceptanceSelf Reflection Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
HappinessIndependenceSelf ReflectionSolitude I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
AvoidanceHuman ConditionSelf Reflection Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
ConsciousnessInner LifeMindSelf Reflection What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Inner PeaceSelf ReflectionSolitude I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
BusinessEthicsMarketingPersuasionSelf Reflection I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
GrowthPrioritiesRegretSelf ReflectionTime Management I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.
AlienationExistentialismSelf Reflection What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
AcceptanceAnger ManagementControlDecision MakingSelf Reflection There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
EmbarrassmentHumilityJudgmentSelf Reflection Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
ConsequenceDeceptionIntentionsMoralitySelf Reflection Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Mental HealthPressureSelf-AnalysisSelf-doubtSelf Reflection I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
HumilityPerfectionismSelf-CriticismSelf-ImprovementSelf Reflection I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
ChangeMilestonesSelf ReflectionSuccess Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
ConsequenceHypocrisyInjusticeReputationSelf Reflection The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
InstinctsRationalitySelf Reflection We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
