Barbara Sher Quotes

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

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

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

I'm my own worst critic.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I am my own biggest critic.

I'm going to be more critical of myself than anyone could ever be.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

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

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.