Paula Radcliffe Quotes

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

I try to spend as little time thinking about myself as possible. I find that's not a constructive way to live.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

People have to understand that they're not good at everything.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.