Quotes About Self-judgment

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

TURN your attention upon yourself and beware of judging the deeds of other men, for in judging others a man labors vainly, often makes mistakes, and easily sins; whereas, in judging and taking stock of himself he does something that is always profitable.

Pon los ojos. en ti mismo y guárdate de juzgar las obras ajenas. En juzgar a otros se ocupa uno en vano, yerra muchas veces y peca fácilmente; mas juzgando y examinándose a sí mismo se emplea siempre con fruto.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

inner skills, chiefly the art of letting go of self-judgments, letting Self 2 do the hitting, recognizing and trusting the natural learning process, and above all gaining some practical experience in the art of relaxed concentration.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.

Our own attitudes always seem OK because we use an attitude to judge itself. No matter how much misery our attitudes cause, we will always defend them.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

begin changing your view of judgment as a valuable or important activity by being aware of when you're doing it to yourself.

You want a crime to torture yourself for, try cowardice . The only sin that ever mattered a shit is the shame that put us all here. Fuck, I didn't give you that power just so you could judge yourselves . I gave you the power so you could judge God .

I have been very hard on myself and strived for unrealistic goals of perfection.

beauty has become a modern-day superdrug, that with filtered and face-tuned social media, retouched models on advertisements, and rampant pornography, we've overloaded the senses so that our natural instincts can no longer recognize or react to real beauty anymore. And it's making us confused and miserable, both in how we judge ourselves and how we judge others.

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

And you call yourself a pal of mine! Yes, I know; but there are limits. Bertie, said Bingo reproachfully, I saved your life once. When? Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow then. Well, anyway, we were boys together and all that. You can't let me down. Oh, all right, I said. But, when you say you haven't nerve enough for any dashed thing in the world, you misjudge yourself.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining, is the aim in living . . . The bad man is the man who, no matter how good he has been, is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

A man's damnation is his own damned business.

No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a matter of appearing to be stupid and heartless; instead I confirm to myself that I am definitively one or the other.

Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.