Lucille Ball Quotes

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

Men must know their limitations.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.

You can't deny your limitations.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.