Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Getting up and criticizing the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

When things are going well, they start saying you're the best, but as soon as things go wrong, suddenly you are the worst.

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

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.

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

A Man … is not half so intent upon reforming the Abuses of his own Party, as discerning the Errors of his Enemies. To view the Virtues of the Side he espouses, he uses the magnifying End of the Perspective; but inverts the Tube, when he surveys those of his Adversaries

You’ve got to give him one thing. A guy has to have some brass for attacking someone for what he did himself.

There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

Everyone has issues, but they're always talking about my issues.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.

How can I tell somebody, 'Don't shoot that shot' when I'm out there chunking 'em?

Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

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.