Paul Arden Quotes

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

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

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

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

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.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

An artist is his own fault.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.