Amitava Kumar Quotes

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I'm very self-critical.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.