Top 200 Reflection Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

52. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

— Leo Tolstoy

53. “Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

— Dale Carnegie

54. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

— Steve Jobs

55. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

56. “If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

— Confucius

57. “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

— Paulo Coelho

58. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

59. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

60. “It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

61. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

— Elie Wiesel

62. “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”

— Khalil Gibran

63. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— C.G. Jung

64. “Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

65. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

66. “Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

67. “When you stop learning you stop growing.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

68. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

69. “Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

— John C. Maxwell

70. “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

— Umar

71. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

72. “Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”

— Richard Carlson

73. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

— Oscar Wilde

74. “What good shall I do this day?”

— Benjamin Franklin

75. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Khalil Gibran

76. “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

— C.G. Jung

77. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

— C.G. Jung

78. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

— Henry David Thoreau

79. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

80. “Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.”

— Saint Augustine

81. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

82. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

83. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

— Ernest Holmes

84. “All that matters is how you see yourself.”

— Conor McGregor

85. “People only see what they are prepared to see.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

86. “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”

— Marcus Aurelius

87. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

88. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”

— Edmund Hillary

89. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

90. “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

— Rumi

91. “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

— Warren Buffett

92. “Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”

— Seneca

93. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

— Khalil Gibran

94. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

95. “We are constantly invited to be who we are.”

— Henry David Thoreau

96. “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

97. “Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.”

— John C. Maxwell

98. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

99. “You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

100. “I’m starting with the man in the mirror.”

— Michael Jackson