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.

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

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed. I

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.

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.

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.

Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?