Reflection Sayings and Quotes

In our busy lives, it can be hard to find a few minutes to spend quality time with family, eat a proper meal or exercise let alone make time for ourselves. While certainly a challenge, self-reflection is an important part of self-care. Take a minute to pause with the wise and insightful list of reflection quotes below.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Makepeace Thackeray
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. Wayne Dyer
The efforts that we put into our lives today would reflect on the place we are standing on tomorrow. Hermann J Steinherr
Our heart should always be a reflection of who we are as people. Ayjee Grogan
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him John Locke
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. Marcel Marceau
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. Jonathan Kiavi
Life is more enjoyable when you focus your attention on helping others than reflecting on your own problems. Nishan Panwar
To find yourself you must look within yourself and not others. Damian Stafon
Becoming a great man doesn't require Education, but Reflection. Steeven Shaw
Before you can do something you must first be something. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Study the past if you would define the future. Confucius
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. T. Harv Eker
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside. Anthony Liccione
If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. Rev. Jesse Jackson
We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves. Bryant McGill
Choices, decisions all done and finished have led me here. Here to this place of reflection. Old times gone, right and wrong have led me here. Here to this place of reflection Mario William Vitale
Marking time in present tense old memories left to rust. The past a distant reverie its truth beyond my trust. Looking straight into the sun my eyes reopen wide. A last reflection staring back remembrance so divine. Kurt Philip Behm
You may scan historic pages, and right down throughout the ages mere reflection never laid a single brick. Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
The pure reflection will shine out again. When earth's hopes are relinquish'd, unfulfill'd. Ada Cambridge
As we protect self reflection the reflection of you, as they are the reflection of self the purest form of the honeydew and the wicked world is deceived by the darkest tower of doom, but every shine is brighter by mind that you have control in confidence courage and faith. Eyy
You had the power to stare at your own reflection in the mirror for unbelievable hours on the trot. Nikhil Parekh
Notice how little, and how seldom, you notice the movement of the eyes in your own face, reflection of a moment’s reflection. Conrad Potter Aiken
When reflection calls to mind, the bleak and desolating wind, that soon thy silken wing shall tear, and waft it on the freezing air. Mary Darby Robinson
Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? Khalil Gibran
Never second guessing always prompt for a mere reflection you decide when. Mario William Vitale