Oswald Chambers Quotes

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

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

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Observe all men, thyself most.

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

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

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

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

If a player wants to be the best, then they also need to give themselves a talking-to. You need to look inwards.

I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I'm very hypercritical of myself.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.