Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

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

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

This may sound like common sense, but the unfortunate reality is that objective self-review and recalibration are rarely the norm with most social programs. The widespread belief that commitment, good intentions, and good deeds are enough carries the day.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

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

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

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.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

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

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

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.

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.