Self-Reflective Quotes

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.

As you move through the day, be aware of how you treat yourself. Be aware of what you do to and for yourself, because you set the standard for others. As you grow in your awareness of how you treat yourself, you will probably become aware of the example you have set for others. You may realize that the time has come to set a new example.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

I am not very introspective.

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

I'm an introspective dude.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

People that know me know I take stuff personally.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.