Elliot Richardson Quotes

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

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

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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

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.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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?

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

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 my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Obviously you try to learn from the past and your mistakes and how you can become a better player as well as a better person.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

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.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

Responsibility for me is to be myself - which is not perfect.

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.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.