Maxim Gorky Quotes

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

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

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Let him who means to tax another, examine himself, and then he will be silent.

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

If you are going to call out your teammates, you have to call out yourself, too. You can't just separate yourself from the rest, because if you are going to get 90 percent of the credit when you win, you have to be willing to take 90 percent of the blame when you lose.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

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.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

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.

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

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Before you judge me... I plead guilty