John C. Maxwell Quotes

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

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

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

No one ever judges their own self.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

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.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

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.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

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.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

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.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.