Maya Moore Quotes

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

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.'

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

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

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

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.