Mardy Grothe Quotes

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

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

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

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

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

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Every person is observant of the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.