Owen Benjamin Quotes

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

I never took myself too seriously.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!