Richard Nixon Quotes

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

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

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

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

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

You had better not be resolving against individual action or there will be no end to it. Tomorrow it will be me you censure; then you.

When deals go wrong, you have no one else to blame, so you yell at yourself, and you yell at others.

When there is a mistake in the game, or even half a mistake, I think I'm quite smart enough to know that I could have, and should have, done better in the situation.

I think my worst enemy is me.

When I don't play well, nobody needs to say anything to me. I beat myself up.

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 know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.