#Self Assessment Quotes

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”

“If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?”

“I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.”

“If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.”

“I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.”

“I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.”

“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”

“Yet through delivery orators succeed,I feel that I am far behind indeed.[Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]”

“So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.”

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”

“I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.”

“I'm good at what I do.”

“I'm a really good fine tuner.”

“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.”

“Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.”

“Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.”

“I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.”

“I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.”