Jack Canfield Quotes

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

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

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

To me, I look at situations and try to look back and see if there was anything I could have done.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I'd rather point a finger at myself than others.

If you're aware of a pattern, you can do something about it, and you can be aware of your own culpability. I like to think I can do that, but, like everyone else, I'm a work in progress.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.

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.