Self-Appraisal Quotes

I have a tough time judging myself.

The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

How do you measure your value?

I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.

The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.

The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

You don't want to sell yourself short.

It's what you're worth.

One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.