Keith Gessen Quotes

Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to... to look at those examples and try to... try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.

Try to be a better person everyday.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.