Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

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.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Character building is one of my favourite things to do.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

… the field of action is not the field of intellect, it is the field of character; and change or development of character is always slow work.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I make mistakes, but each and every day you want to try to better yourself to be a better person and learn from your mistakes.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Man should be ever better than he seems.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.