Quotes about Self-criticism

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

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.

is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Make no mistake: Satan's specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God ("It's not fair!"), turn us on others ("It's their fault!"), or turn us on ourselves ("I'm so stupid!"), we won't turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we'll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.