Nikolai Gogol 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.

An artist is his own fault.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

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

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

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.

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

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

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

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.

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

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

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

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 behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

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.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.