Quotes about Self-assessment
Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day
- Madeleine L'Engle
Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.
- John Calvin
compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed. I
- Jen Sincero
Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.
- Epictetus
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
- Joseph Brodsky
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- William Hazlitt
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
- John Eldredge