John Bunyan Quotes

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

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.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

I think as soon as we start thinking of ourselves as good people, that's when we start letting ourselves off the hook which is bad. I think we should always be trying to be better but that doesn't mean we want to be good.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I think that any time you get into an area where it requires humility, and accountability, it's gonna get touchy. And so I understand the reality of when someone says something that requires you to look at yourself and change, it's not easy.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

Everyone has to be their own critic.

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.