Quotes About Self-criticism

A gentleman is one who doesn't and cant forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

All my life I've been called unworthy by the voice inside my head filled with regret and shame. And all I have is me to blame.

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.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises

Cuando me siento cursi, me desprecio un poquito, y eso es malísimo. Porque nunca es bueno despreciarse, a menos que existan razones fundamentadas, que no es mi caso.

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.

In their addresses, both Graham and Stott paused for self-criticism. Graham confessed that it had been too easy for him "to identify the Gospel with . . . one political program or culture."[172

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

I didn't do anything during the game. I only had one shot on goal and I did not create any chances. I was horrible. Maybe I should have left the pitch earlier.

If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

She was a waterfall of apologies. She was drowning in herself.

I make life worse for people. I have nothing to give. I'm sorry.

The biggest enemy of your learning is the gnawing worry that you're not "doing it right." Dissertation work tends to encourage that.

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

Why are we so hard on ourselves?" Asked someone with great plaintiveness. Faith thought, it's not that I'm so hard on myself exactly, it's that I've learned to adopt the views of men as if they were my own.

We are often our own harshest critics

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.

The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

I'm ashamed. I'm dishonest, weak, and dirty.

you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth, where one possible mistake would feel like the end of the world.