Frederic Bastiat Quotes

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

I think I surprise myself.

I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine.

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I'm a work in progress.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.