Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

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.

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

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.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

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

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

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.

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

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.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

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

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

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

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

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.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

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.

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.