Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

I don't really expect anything from anyone else that I wouldn't do myself.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.