A Quote by Tokugawa Ieyasu

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Quote Topics

Fault Find Others Rather Than Thyself

Quote Author

Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese - Leader
January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Edward Tufte

Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

Saint Basil

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Muhammad

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Samuel Richardson

Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.

Robert Holden

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

Friedrich Schiller

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

William Penn

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare

Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.