Confucius Quotes

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

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

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

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

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

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

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

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.