John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

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

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.

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

It's definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

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

I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

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.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.