A. J. Jacobs Quotes

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

I have plenty of improving to do.

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.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

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

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

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

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

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

There's no one of us that's perfect; there's no one of us that can't do just a little better.

I just want to be the best version of me.

I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.

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

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

I have mistakes and I have flaws, but I'm going to grow and get better from it.