Francoise Sagan Quotes

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.