C. S. Lewis Quotes

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

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

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

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I'm very demanding of myself.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

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

I hold myself to a high standard.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

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