Mirror Quotes

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

~ Paulina Porizkova

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

~ Jane Porter

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

~ Yoko Ono

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

~ Si Robertson

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

~ Virat Kohli

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

~ Lennart Meri

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

~ Diane Ackerman

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

~ Jessica Simpson

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

~ Dudley Moore

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

~ John Lydon

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

~ Eve Arnold

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

~ Samuel Butler

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

~ Andy Whitfield

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

~ Maya Angelou

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

~ Damian Woetzel

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

~ Carol Burnett

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

~ Robert Mckee

Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.

~ John Ridley

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

~ Barbra Streisand

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

~ Khalil Gibran

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

~ Pamela Anderson

Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

~ Lily Collins

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

~ Steven Wright

You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.

~ Nick Kroll

I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

~ Sherilyn Fenn

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

~ Azzedine Alaia

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

~ Lana Parrilla

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

~ Ernest Holmes

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

~ Jay Garner

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

~ Heidi Klum

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

~ Taylor Swift

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

~ Colm Tóibín

I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I'd focus on those gigantic zits and just wail about what a monster I was, how I would never have a career because of my gross skin. I couldn't pass a mirror with out thinking about how hideous my skin was and how I wished I was someone else, someone with perfect skin.

~ Stephanie Beatriz