200+ Mirror Quotes to Help You Reflect, Grow, and Heal

Looking for some inspiration? Check out these 200 mirror selfie quotes! These quotes are perfect for giving you a boost of confidence and making you feel beautiful. Whether you’re taking a selfie or just looking in the mirror, these quotes will help you love yourself and feel confident in who you are.

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What are the benefits of reading these mirror quotes?

Reading these mirror quotes can help you with:

• Feel confident in who you are
• Remind yourself of your beauty
• Help you to love yourself more
• Give you motivation and inspiration
• Be an encouragement in times of self-doubt.

So, take a few minutes to read these quotes and start feeling the positive vibes! You can also share them with friends who need a little boost or post them on social media to spread the love.

You can also use these quotes as captions on Instagram or Tiktok or write them down in a journal – whatever works best for you! Enjoy these mirror quotes and may they help you find beauty and worth in yourself.

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Mirror Quotes

1. “Speech is the mirror of action.” – Solon
2. “What does a mirror look at?” – Frank Herbert
3. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
4. “Water is the mirror of nature.” – Francis of Assisi
5. “Speech is the mirror of the soul.” – Publilius Syrus
6. “Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken.” – Yoko Ono
7. “The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.” – Said Nursi
8. “The world is the mirror of myself dying.” – Henry Miller
9. “The best mirror is an old friend.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
10. “A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.” – Stendhal
11. “You can’t see the world through a mirror.” – Avril Lavinge
12. “Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.” – Diego Luna
13. “You mirror what the world mirrors to you.” – Jennifer Lopez
14. “I don’t spend a lot of time in the mirror.” – Julia Roberts
15. “The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty” – Sophia Nam
16. “Faith and hard work have been my mirror.” – Patrick Beverley
17. “Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.” – Lawrence Durrell
18. “Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.” – Bernie Glassman
19. “It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.” – Phil McGraw
20. “Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.” – Bill Cunningham
21. “Mirror should think longer before they reflect.” – Jean Cocteau
22. “Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.” – Aeschylus
23. “The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.” – Lana Turner
24. “Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.” – Mason Cooley
25. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Khalil Gibran
26. “Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.” – Tess Daly
27. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Khalil Gibran
28. “My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.” – Tom Hanks
29. “I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.” – Jack Abbott
30. “A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.” – Baltasar Gracian
31. “Before you criticize, look at the mirror first!” – Prathit Mahapatra
32. “A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.” – Elizabeth Fishel
33. “I look at myself in the mirror and think I’m gorgeous.” – Kathy Burke
34. “I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.” – Sid Vicious
35. “Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.” – Evita Peron
36. “All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.” – Acques Lacan
37. “A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.” – Balthasar Gracian
38. “Only see the truth when I’m staring in the mirror.” – Drake, “Used To”
39. “Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.” – Evita Peron
40. “The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.” – Hans-Georg Gadamer
41. “Never pass a mirror without looking at it.” – Cheryl Blossom, Riverdale
42. “The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
43. “He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.” – Eric Cantona
44. “If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.” – Bertolt Brecht
45. “It’s the spectator and not life, that art really mirrors.” – Oscar Wilde
46. “The world is a mirror representing the divine life.” – William A. Dembski
47. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the dumbest of you all?” – Anne Robinson
48. “Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss.” – Bryant McGill
49. “Broken bones can heal, but a broken mirror must be replaced.” – Luke Taylor
50. “We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.” – Marshall McLuhan
51. “I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.” – Steven Adler
52. “I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.” – Sridevi
53. “We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.” – Marshall McLuhan
54. “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” – Byron Katie
55. “Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.” – Henry David Thoreau
56. “Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.” – Lauren Bacall
57. “Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.” – Eugene O’Neill
58. “A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.” – Robert Kiyosaki
59. “Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.” – Pamela Anderson
60. “The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.” – Liam Cunningham
61. “I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.” – Heather Morris
62. “Don’t stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.” – Mason Cooley
63. “Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
64. “The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.” – Dudley Moore
65. “The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.” – Rose Kennedy
66. “I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.” – Claude Chabrol
67. “When I look at myself in the mirror, I don’t see the bad guy.” – Patrick Heusinger
68. “Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.” – Lauren Hutton
69. “The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.” – Jonathan Miles
70. “The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.” – Thomas Dreier
71. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
72. “I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.” – Alannah Myles
73. “Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.” – Udo Kier
74. “I think it’s important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.” – Ricky Gervais
75. “I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.” – Alannah Myles
76. “Look in a mirror and one thing’s sure; what we see is not who we are.” – Richard Bach
77. “If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.” – John Young
78. “I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?” – Bela Lugosi
79. “It’s like your my mirror, my mirror staring back at me.” – Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors”
80. “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.” – Coco Chanel
81. “I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.” – Suzanne Collins
82. “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
83. “Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
84. “I’m still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.” – James Bay
85. “Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.” – Mason Cooley
86. “Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.” – Rajneesh
87. “Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.” – Samuel Butler
88. “A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
89. “Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.” – Chanakya
90. “No matter how much money you make, you still have to look in the mirror.” – Quinton Jackson
91. “Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.” – Byron Katie
92. “If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you’ll crash and cause an accident.” – Eliud Kipchoge
93. “The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.” – Rumi
94. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Bertolt Brecht
95. “My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror & then forget about it.” – Vivienne Westwood
96. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
97. “If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.” – Rumi
98. “The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.” – Mason Cooley
99. “I don’t drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.” – Nicolas Cage
100. “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” – Ernest Holmes
101. “Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.” – Ava DuVernay
102. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
103. “My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.” – Lil Peep
104. “A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.” – Madeline Brewer
105. “And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.” – Shane L. Koyczan
106. “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” – Rabindranath Tagore
107. “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” – Pablo Picasso
108. “I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.” – Ani DiFranco
109. “The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.” – Kinky Friedman
110. “No matter what’s behind us in the rearview mirror, it’s always about what’s next.” – Dabo Swinney
111. “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” – Pablo Picasso
112. “The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are ‘Hello, Beautiful.’” – Richelle E. Goodrich
113. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett
114. “I’m the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.” – John Candy
115. “Books are like a mirror. If an *** looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.” – B. C. Forbes
116. “Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.” – David Alan Grier
117. “Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, ‘This is who we are.'” – Dee Rees
118. “Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.” – Paul Morand
119. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” – George Bernard Shaw
120. “I’ve never mouthed a dialogue in front of the mirror. I only peep in to check my hair.” – Vatsal Sheth
121. “Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You’re no different.” – Jonathan Nolan
122. “The show is just basically a mirror of our lives, and the goal was to stay true to that.” – Sal Vulcano
123. “I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.” – Cindy Sherman
124. “Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.” – Terry Wogan
125. “If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror.” – Eugene Cernan
126. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
127. “Inside you’re like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.” – Arthur J. Deikman
128. “I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.” – Steven Wright
129. “True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” – Jennifer Aniston
130. “Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.” – Walter Cronkite
131. “Black cats cross my path all the time. I’ll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.” – CM Punk
132. “I don’t care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.” – Kat Von D
133. “The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.” – Herbert Samuel
134. “When I **** a character, very often as I’m doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.” – Matthew Ashford
135. “I’ve never been a rearview mirror guy. I’m always looking forward, always looking downfield.” – Jeff Jarrett
136. “A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg
137. “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” – St. Jerome
138. “Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono
139. “I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.” – Mike Fisher
140. “I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I’ll see the odd grey hair – but this is life.” – Tess Daly
141. “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” – St. Jerome
142. “Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” – Malcolm de Chazal
143. “Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.” – Diane Ackerman
144. “I see red only twice – when I took in the mirror and when I read that I’m a second Greer Garson.” – Amanda Blake
145. “When you look in the mirror at the end of the day, make sure you feel good about what you see.” – Frankie Faison
146. “We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us – not our effects on others.” – Pearl Bailey
147. “The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level.” – Mickalene Thomas
148. “The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.” – Jacques Lacan
149. “It’s really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.” – Lilly Singh
150. “Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn’t so much a face as the expression of a predicament.” – Colin Firth
151. “And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.” – Cleo Moore
152. “I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.” – Syd Barrett
153. “Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.” – W.H. Auden
154. “I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.” – Drew Barrymore
155. “When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.” – Jim Hodges
156. “The mirror is my best friend, because when I cry it never laughs.” – Charlie Chaplin (see more Charlie Chaplin quotes)
157. “Sure, being a reservist wasn’t as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.” – Larry David
158. “Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.” – George Bancroft
159. “Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” – Earl Nightingale
160. “Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.” – Gail Buckley
161. “The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that’s moving forward.” – Dan Quinn
162. “Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.” – Marcel Wanders
163. “When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me. Every freckle on my face is where its suppose to be.” – India Arie
164. “Art is sometimes likened to a mirror… an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.” – Sara Genn
165. “You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.” – Jean Cocteau
166. “Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.” – Edmund Muskie
167. “I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.” – Iggy Pop
168. “A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.” – Clare Boothe Luce
169. “Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.” – Bette Davis
170. “The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror… if it has only the capacity to reflect.” – Andre Breton
171. “The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.” – Sigmund Freud
172. “I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.” – Taylor Swift
173. “I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can’t see it. I can’t see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.” – John Lydon
174. “I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.” – Marilyn Monroe
175. “I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.” – Jonathan Van Ness
176. “As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.” – Meat Loaf
177. “I think white women need to wake up and say, ‘Not all women are white,’ three times in front of the mirror.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
178. “I like actors very much, but to ***** one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.” – Marilyn Monroe
179. “I try and feel good, and the only way to do it is to see myself in the mirror and to know that I’m still a single piece.” – Sushmita Sen
180. “I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.” – Kendrick Lamar
181. “Content isn’t just a brand or message that you develop yourself and then throw out into the echo chamber. It’s a mirror.” – Eugene Lee Yang
182. “The Daily Mirror called me a ‘money-grabbing reptile’ once. I could cope with the reptile part, but ‘money-grabbing’ hurt.” – Frank Skinner
183. “I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.” – Kendrick Lamar
184. “The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.” – Jim Bishop
185. “If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that’s going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.” – Brent Faiyaz
186. “Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.” – Louise Hay
187. “Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, ‘Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'” – Gina Rodriguez
188. “I was declared bankrupt a few years ago, which really made me grow up and look in the mirror, face myself, and find strength.” – Miquita Oliver
189. “When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I see an advocate. I see a survivor.” – Elizabeth Smart
190. “I’m at the age where food has taken the place of *** in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” – Rodney Dangerfield
191. “During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.” – Saswata Chatterjee
192. “Star Trek and sci-fi in general has always been a mirror to our society, obviously, and I think it is reminiscent of a lot of ideas.” – Isa Briones
193. “One thing a narcissist doesn’t like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what’s on the other side of it.” – Jay Parini
194. “When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.” – Heather Locklear
195. “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
196. “It doesn’t upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.” — Chuck Close
197. “I think I became an actress because I didn’t know who I was, and I certainly didn’t like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.” – Trudie Styler
198. “To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.” – Margaret Atwood (see more Margaret Atwood quotes)
199. “I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don’t know what I see I don’t even know what I want to see.” – Nina LaCour
200. “The mirror has two faces and mine is the one I want to forget.” – Jan Methorst

Wrapping Up

Mirrors and reflections can tell us many things about ourselves, both good and bad. Whether you are looking in the mirror to admire yourself or to learn something new about your own reflection, remember that life is a journey of self-discovery. Use mirrors as tools to help you understand yourself better, but also take time to appreciate who you are and the person you have become. After all, we are our own best reflection.