Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

People should always know better.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

It is true that [the] present-day young are idealistic. But theirs is the easy idealism that condemns abuses and pushes aside any thought that would reveal the difficulties and complexities inherent in righting wrongs. They are not willing to do the hard work by which alone the world can be improved. Hearing what they say, and seeing what they do, one suspects that one of the main functions of the young’s idealism is finding good reasons for doing bad things.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

I must give an account for what I've done.

You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.