Stephanie Ruhle Quotes

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

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

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.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

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

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.