Mark Twain Quotes

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

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

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.