Frances Hesselbein Quotes

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

Only the shallow know themselves.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

Sometimes you have to self-scout yourself.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.