Thales Quotes

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

What you demand of others you should carry out yourself.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

I don't want people to think I'm a hypocrite.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

I don't like hypocrisy—even in international relations.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

Leaders should not ask others to do what they will not do themselves.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

I don't want people to think lm hypocritical.

Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral standards to which his own behaviour hardly conforms.

In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.

I can't have double standards, so I do what I believe in.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.