Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

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

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

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 know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

There's definitely going to be things that I'm not very good at, things I can improve.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

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

I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.