Jack Paar Quotes

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I want to be known as someone who grew up a little.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Half my life is an act of revision.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

For me, my life is a journey.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

It took me a while to find myself.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.