Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

I judge myself severely.

I'm going to be more critical of myself than anyone could ever be.

I'll always be tough on myself.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

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 am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I can look at every one of my faults, see they're there, and go out and try to improve on it.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I am my own biggest critic.

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 going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.