Christian Morgenstern Quotes

I am critical of myself.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

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

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

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.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

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'm never impressed with myself!

I'm very critical of myself.

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 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.

Because I have been so pigheaded and so selfish about so many things for so many years, I've spent a lot of time being, like, 'That person needs to change. This person needs to change.'

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I do know that it takes a lot to look in that mirror and fix yourself.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.

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

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.