Self Assessment Quotes

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
― John Green

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
― Confucius

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch.

I can’t do anything," says Peeta, "unless you count baking bread."

Sorry, I don’t. Katniss. I already know you’re handy with a knife,” says Haymitch.

Not really. But I can hunt,” I say. “With a bow and arrow.”

And you’re good?” asks Haymitch.

I have to think about it. I’ve been putting food on the table for four years. That’s no small task. I’m not as good as my father was, but he’d had more practice. I’ve better aim than Gale, but I’ve had more practice. He’s a genius with traps and snares. “I’m all right,” I say.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.”
― Chuck Klosterman

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.”
― Jacques Revaux, My Way

“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“People’s confidence in their abilities influences how they approach life. Their dreams are likely anchored to what they feel they can achieve.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision in their heads. And when something is missing from that vision, they fill the gap.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.”
― Paulo Coelho

“When you travel mentally from a low point to a high point, the ensuing inspiration eclipses the negativity of the initial downfall.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Introspection is a form of self-management. You reflect. You decide. You change. You allow yourself to grow.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If Mike convinces a woman to date him because he is dominant, the resulting relationship will be entirely different than if he had inspired this same woman to date him by convincing her that, through dating him, she could improve herself (though such dynamics might be ameliorated through therapy).

One of the core reasons why people either end up in one bad relationship after another—or come to believe that all members of a certain gender have very constrained behavior patterns—is that they do not understand how different lures function (in male communities, this often manifests in the saying “AWALT,” which stands for “all women are like that”). These people do not realize that the lure they are using is creating those relationship dynamics and/or constrained behavior patterns.

Talking with individuals who say guys or girls always act like X or Y feels like talking to a fisherman who insists that all fish have whiskers. When you point out that all the lures in his tackle box are designed specifically to only catch catfish, he just turns and gives you a quizzical look saying, “what's your point?”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships: Ruthlessly Optimized Strategies for Dating, Sex, and Marriage

“Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What is the worst thing about yourself that you like?”
― Amit Abraham

“You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Don't leave things for later if there's anything to say, say it out loud.”
― Martin M Stupak

“The best way to assess yourself is to base the assessment on the product you produce daily”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Evaluate and assess your life on a daily”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Perhaps the most important thought any human can have is to remember not everyone else thinks like you, best to be diplomatic if possible.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Energetic currency decides our destination.”
― Bella Bloom

“Depression: In an essence, depression is a microscopic self-analysis. Every morning, you rule-set yourself into perpetual purgatory cycles.”
― Kayo K.

“To overestimate myself is to make myself my own god. To underestimate myself is to make myself my own demon. And the curse of both is that they are one in the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Writing our eulogy can be a wake-up call to prioritize what truly matters.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas