118 Mirrors Quotes

Following is our list of mirrors quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about being mirror image.

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Famous Mirrors Quotes

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you. — Byron Katie

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied — Confucius

Mirrors work magic. Repeat the last three words — Chris Voss

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. — Elizabeth Fishel

The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection. — Rumi

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. - Donald Woods Winnicott

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. — Donald Woods Winnicott

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world . — Agnes Varda

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. - Jean Cocteau

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. — Jean Cocteau

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. — George Balanchine

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. - Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. — Evita Peron

The best mirror is an old friend. — George Herbert

The best mirror is an old friend. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire

Short Mirrors Quotes

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton
  • Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. — Ernest Holmes
  • I sell mirrors in the city of the blind. — Kabir
  • Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror. — Joubert Botha
  • And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. — Cleo Moore
  • Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht
  • The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney J. Harris
  • Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity. — Hildegard of Bingen
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton
  • Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming

Mirrors Image Quotes

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? - Rumi quote

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi

Mirrors quote Look in the mirror... that's your competition.
Look in the mirror... that's your competition.
The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. - Alice Bailey quote

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. — Alice Bailey

If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope - Boonaa Mohammed quote

If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope — Boonaa Mohammed

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. - Julio Cortazar quote

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar

Mirrors quote If you're searching for the one person who can change your life... take a look in the mirror.
If you're searching for the one person who can change your life... take a look in the mirror.
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. - Coco Chanel quote

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. - Peace Pilgrim quote

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. — Peace Pilgrim

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw quote

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler quote

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. — Samuel Butler

Mirrors quote If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

Self Mirror Image Quotes

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot. — Richard Rohr

The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it. — Robert Anthony

Mirrors quote Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.
Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God. — Sam Storms

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring. — John Bradshaw

In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer. — Arnulf Rainer

Mirrors quote Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed. — Richard Moran

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair. — Elizabeth Prettejohn

Being Mirror Image Quotes

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. — Clare of Assisi

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself. — Baal Shem Tov

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness. — Max Ernst

Mirrors quote Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody. — Alexander McQueen

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes. — Alix Kates Shulman

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror? — Jay Leno

Mirrors quote Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side. — David L. Katz

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you. — Uma Thurman

Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror! — Wole Soyinka

Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience. — Cornell Capa

Mirror Reflection Quotes

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri

Mirrors quote There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. — Ramakrishna

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. — Rudolf Steiner

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without? — Guru Nanak

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil Wayne

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. — Colin Powell

The eyes are the mirror of the soul. — Japanese Proverbs

Mirror Show Quotes

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it — Masaru Emoto

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you. — H. Rap Brown

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. — Juice Newton

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. — David Lee

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be. — Alvin Ailey

A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold. — James E. Faust

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud

Mirror Quotes

Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone. — Kim Jong-hyun

You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man. — Kendrick Lamar

I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same. — Bill Belichick

Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. — Neville Goddard

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. — Sue Monk Kidd

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows. - Mason Cooley

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows. — Mason Cooley

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. — Yoko Ono

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside. — Deepak Chopra

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More Mirrors Quotes

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. — Joel Osteen

I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG. — Shane Koyczan

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind. — Neville Goddard

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. — Michael Leboeuf

Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013. — G-Dragon

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