Quotes About Self-criticism

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I feel like the first 20 videos that I made were just so horrible. I think the worst one was probably more like fashion, though.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.

I was staring into a mirror, and I didn't like what I saw there.

I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree....Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.

I hate it when the voice inside my head chews me out.

Being disappointed with yourself sucks worse than others being disappointed with you.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

For all you people that complain about others that live within your radius, do you look at yourself? Self evaluation is quite important.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

Avevo incominciato a firmare i quadri, ma ho smesso subito, mi sembrava troppo cretino.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

self-laceration is never more than a memory away

I have the feeling I've been— unpleasant.

Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.

Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?' Oh, I don't know. I'm a fat piece of shit, I guess.

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

I am one of those athletes who is very hard on myself.