Seneca the Younger Quotes

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

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

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

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

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.