Self Criticism Quotes
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PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
— Albert Einstein
Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism - a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
— Sharon Salzberg
Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
— Dale Carnegie
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
— Will Self
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
— J.M. Barrie
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
— Kingsley Amis
Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.
— Bryant McGill
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
— Joseph McCabe
Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!
— Mariela Dabbah
Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.
— David Nicholls
The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody's likely to contradict you.
— Peter Watts
Fear of boredom is the most scathing self-criticism.
— Marty Rubin
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
— John Fante
It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism.
— Emil M. Cioran
Messages of self-doubt and self-criticism that we carry around in our heads. My answer was There are a few of them.
— Brene Brown
Don't accept any negative criticism and negative thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.
— Ben Michaelis
The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
— Geraldine Brooks
Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
— Bryant McGill
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
— Mason Cooley
Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.
— Lee Roberson
I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.
— Isabella Rossellini
In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.
— Nathaniel Branden
Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
— Charles Horton Cooley
When we carry the thoughts of negativity and self-criticism, we inspire just what we don't want: poor health and an unattractive physical body.
— Dashama Konah Gordon
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
— G.K. Chesterton
If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism
— Sunday Adelaja
I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.
— Braden Pedersen
A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
— Marvin J. Ashton
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
— Kenneth Tynan
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
— Steven Heighton
We all have our weak moments when we believe the worst things we think about ourselves.
— Marty Rubin
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.
— Abhijit Naskar
I'm not saying the plot doesn't have holes.
— Vernon D. Burns
Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
— Louise L. Hay
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
— Barbara Oakley
Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.
— Joyce Carol Oates
In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination
— Sunday Adelaja
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.
— H. Burke Peterson
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
— Muhammad Iqbal
To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.
— Deepak Chopra
Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.
— Peggy Lampman
Don't judge yourself by your past; you no longer live there.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest
— Gary Hopkins
The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.
— Gerhard Casper
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
— Walter Isaacson
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
— James Pike
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
— Joyce Carol Oates
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
— Emmet Fox
In every book she'd ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.
— Kathleen Tessaro
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
— David Mitchell
