50 Inspirational Quotes About Reflection on life Sayings

Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes about life. Let these reflections inspire and uplift you. These encouraging quotes from changemakers will inspire you to be your best self.

Self-reflection is a necessary phase in life’s peace and achievement. May these quotes of self-reflection lead you through your path to better your life. Here is a list of inspiring quotes for self-reflection.

Inspirational quotes about reflection on life sayings

1. “Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it’s about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.” — Sergio Ermotti

2. “New Year’s Eve is not about having a big party for me. It’s a time of reflection, and I often go on spiritual retreats.” — Monique Roffey

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3. “Unfortunately, relationships always end for a reason. When it happens it is a time for reflection of course, because one has to always learn from those circumstances.” — Jose Jose

4. “Although I’ve watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.” — Jaime Winstone

5. “There’s so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they’re lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.” — Courtney Thorne-Smith

6. “Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.” — Samuel E. Morison

7. “For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.” — Debi Gliori

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8. “One of the best things about paintings is their silence – which prompts reflection and random reverie.” — Mark Stevens

9. “’Joy’ to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I’ve had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It’s just like all of those experiences that I had during that period – that growing up period.” — Fefe Dobson

10. “If I’ve seen the movie, it means it’s an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in ‘Night Watch.’” — Timur Bekmambetov

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11. “For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it’s the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.” — Gene Saks

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12. “Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.” — Alban Berg

13. “There’s nothing like meeting someone’s family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.” — Lenora Crichlow

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

15. “As of late, ‘Boyz n the Hood’ really impacted me because I grew up in that same neighborhood. It was the first time I saw a true reflection of me, my neighborhood and my surroundings.” — Wendy Raquel Robinson

16. “Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you’re an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.” — Guillaume Canet

17. “The meditative, calm sound is a reflection of my personality. I’ve got a silly and a crazy side, but it makes sense the music would come across that way. I do yoga every day and try to keep a sense of peace and calm in my life. I don’t have a lot of frantic energy.” — Gretchen Parlato

18. “’Quantum Conundrum’ is a direct reflection, not just of me, but of our entire team. It has a little bit of all of our personalities in it.” — Kim Swift

19. “The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.” — Hjalmar Branting

20. “I think it’s a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.” — Kathy Valentine

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21. “Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.” — Ann Macbeth

22. “One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.” — Brian Sutton-Smith

23. “On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.” — Bill Budge

24. “The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.” — Hope Davis

25. “When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We’ve always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let’s face it: 20 years prior to ‘Baby Got Back,’ the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head.” — Sir Mix-a-Lot

26. “I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn’t want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.” — Nicky Hilton

27. “After much reflection, I have concluded that the federal individual mandate, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014, will not be upheld.” — Ron Williams

28. “To me, fashion is like a mirror. It’s a reflection of the times. And if it doesn’t reflect the times, it’s not fashion. Because people aren’t gonna be wearing it.” — Anna Sui

29. “In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.” — Jacques Ellul

30. “No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed.” — Whitney Tilson

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31. “I get disappointed when players arrive and are not at peak condition. Ultimately that is the reflection of the set-up I run. Ultimately that is the reflection of me and my support staff.” — Mickey Arthur

32. “Thanksgiving, for me, is a time for reflection.” — Trish Regan

33. “The harder we push forward into the unknown the more it intensifies the reflection of humanity. That’s what I really love about ‘Star Trek.’” — Justin Lin

34. “What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I’m in a good mood, it’s got to be cashmere and jeans – just something comfy, soft and warm. When I’m down, I might find something that I haven’t worn for a while that was bought for me – or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.” — Kim Cattrall

35. “When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics’ reviews and box office figures.” — Jim Sarbh

36. “If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

37. “Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor – Washington’s most sought-after bachelor.” — Alistair Horne

38. “It’s torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.” — Israel Houghton

39. “Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.” — Brian Tracy

40. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” — Margaret J. Wheatley