Dalai Lama Quotes

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I'm not good at watching myself.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

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.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

You change your life by changing your heart.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

I think a lot about my own game.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.