John Ruskin Quotes

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

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.

I've learned a lot by watching myself on television, and I hope I've changed for the better.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

If you're not vulnerable, and you're too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won't help you grow. Vulnerability doesn't have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.

I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

I have plenty of improving to do.

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

We all have the things that we all have to work on, and things we have to get better at.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.