Quotes About Inner critic

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.

These voices — the inner critic, the inner nag, the inner pest, the inner jerk and all the other monsters who try to talk you out of moving forward— are the part of you that is threatened by change and progress. We all have them. They are trying to protect you from new and scary things, but they are out of sync with you right now and not helpful. They hate what you are doing, but that doesn't make them right

Make this a rule: always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

But ever since I made the decision to drop a few pounds-way less easy than it sounds, by the way-I've become obsessed with my size and in so doing I've inadvertently allowed my inner critic to have a voice. And you know what? She's a bitch. Like now when I see my underpants in the laundry, I no longer think Soft! Cotton! Sensible! Instead I hear her say Damn, girl, these panties be huge.

we invest everything we've got in believing that we're not good enough. We arrive here as perfect little bundles of joy and then set about the task of learning to un-love ourselves! How unbelievably ridiculous is that?! Self-love, the simplest yet most powerful thing ever, flies right out the window when we start taking in outside information. I

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

This derisive aspect of the voice contributes to the empty feeling or the sensation of being let down that many people notice after they achieve an unusual success.

Having a negative self-image or a negative body image is like always having a gate-crashing critic watching the events of your life as they unfold.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.