Quotes About Self-criticism

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.

I think, do you know what, I'm going to be honest and say, the times I actually pick myself apart and feel miserable is when I get papped in a bikini.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

I deal with body dysmorphia a lot, so it's always a process to see and hear myself on camera. I have to be in the right mental mode to not be hyper-critical of myself.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.

The person who is a defeated perfectionist generally has a conscience that's way too big. So big, in fact, that it magnifies shortcomings and failures and won't let its owner forget sins or imaginary sins of years ago, even though they have long since been repented of or paid for.

Firstborn girls who grow up under a very perfectionistic, critical father are often hard on themselves and put themselves in situations that aren't healthy as they look for the love, affirmation, and acceptance they didn't get from their own father. When such a firstborn daughter grows up and marries, her husband will pay the price for the sins of her father.

Almost always, the work an author thinks is their worst turns out to be quite good. Sometimes it's even considered their best stuff.

What if it isn't good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?

I am always castigating myself, but I continue to do as before.

I thought for a moment, searching for a funny reply. What to say? Make him laugh! Make him like me! Oh, please make him like me! Then everything will be fine or thereabouts. But no punch lines came to deliver that body blow that would reignite the blaze of his smile. What a jerk I was. I've always been a jerk and always will be. He hates me now and thinks I'm boring and stupid.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Perfectionism is slow death.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.