Francois Fenelon Quotes

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.