Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

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

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

I'm not good at watching myself.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

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

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

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

May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.