Eartha Kitt Quotes

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

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

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

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

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

It's not my style to blame anybody else.

When given the opportunity to fail myself or fail someone else, I choose to fail myself.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.