Leo Tolstoy Quotes

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

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

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

I'm very self-critical.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

That which we call sin in others, we call experiment in ourselves.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!