Janet Reno Quotes

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

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?

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

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

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.