Horace Quotes

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

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

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

Nobody likes to be judged, including me, but I am the first to say that I am far from perfect.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

Teach him to deny himself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

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

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

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.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I know I'm not perfect.