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Quotes About Self-judgment

When I feel ashamed, it means I feel there isn't just something wrong with what I've done, there is something wrong with who I am. Shame is often a hidden emotion and it can be paralyzing in its power.
~ Desmond Tutu
I evaluate myself pretty tough.
~ Collin Sexton
Life doesn't judge us, but we judge ourselves. Life doesn't criticize us, but we criticize ourselves. Life doesn't abandon us, but we often abandon ourselves.
~ Louise L. Hay
Mirrors reflect back to us our feelings about ourselves. They
~ Louise L. Hay
These people feel guilty because they believe that they have failed in some way. However, they usually accept everything as a guilt trip in one way or another because it's another way to make themselves wrong.
~ Louise L. Hay
You never do anything right." "It's all your fault." How often have you said this to yourself? "You are wonderful." "I love you." How often do you tell yourself this?
~ Louise L. Hay
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
~ John Donne
There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.
~ Unknown
'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
~ Hugh Prather
I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.
~ Dov Davidoff
Go ahead, judge me. Just remember to be perfect for the rest of your life.
~ Unknown
The right to be the final judge of yourself is the prime assertive right which allows no one to manipulate you. It is the assertive right from which your other assertive rights are derived. Your other assertive rights are only more specific everyday applications of this prime right.
~ Unknown
Worse than the feeling of loss that comes with a breakup is the feeling of losing. Loss is a state of emotional injury that you can get past; losing is a feeling of humiliation and defeat that stays fresh. The latter causes most of the problems in the world. If there is another man involved, it is almost impossible not to judge yourself as a failure and see him as an enemy.
~ Marc Maron
I think he didn't like himself, and when that is so the subject usually must find an area for dislike outside himself.
~ John Steinbeck
Everyone is responsible for their own actions. so think twice before you go on blaming yourself for the mistakes made by others.
~ Unknown
When all is said and done, the only person you have to answer to is yourself.
~ Adam Young
I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I'm constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there's no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.
~ Unknown
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.
~ Unknown
With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being.
~ Unknown
You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It's not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who's responsible for your life, it's you. In the end, souls judge themselves.
~ Unknown
The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.
~ Mike Dooley
Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.
~ Moliere