C. S. Lewis Quotes

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

My personality doesn't interest me.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.