Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

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

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.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

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

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

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

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

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

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.