Joseph Joubert Quotes

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

I can't do impressions.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Hell, I can't even generate a good demonstration any more.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I don't like being bad at anything.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'