Lev Grossman Quotes

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.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

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

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

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

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

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

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

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 think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

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.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.