Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

We can all become better than we are.

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.

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

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.

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

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

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.