Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

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.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.