Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

I can confidently say that if there is any criticism levelled at me, then I have done that already. It's what happens when you try to be honest and hard-working.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

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

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

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

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

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Let him who means to tax another, examine himself, and then he will be silent.

John McCain is never the kind of person that lies to himself. When he does something wrong he knows it and deals with it.... One of the few great men.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

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 attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.