Faisal Al-Qasim Quotes

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

The best critics of America are Americans.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

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

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

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

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

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

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

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

I'm not good at watching myself.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I'm still very critical of myself in film.

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

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

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.