Tokugawa Ieyasu Quotes

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.

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.

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

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

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

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

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 believe my biggest critic is me only.

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.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'd rather point a finger at myself than others.

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

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

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

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

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.