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Quotes about Self-criticism

Sometimes on Wednesday I'll read something that I wrote on Tuesday and I'll think, "This is crap. I hate it and I hate myself." Then I'll re-read the identical passage on Thursday. To my astonishment, it has become brilliant overnight. Ignore false negatives. Ignore false positives. Both are Resistance. Keep working.
- Steven Pressfield
Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.
- Brennan Manning
If a man has nobody to punish him when he feels he deserves it, he starts punishing himself. It is this inward-turned hostility which causes the depression [...]
- Henri Nouwen
You want the praise of people who kick themselves every 15 minutes. The praise of people who despise themselves?
- Marcus Aurelius
I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
- Anne Frank
I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!
- Anne Frank
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.
- Anne Lamott
there's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
- George Eliot
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
- Lewis Carroll
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
- Albert Einstein
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
- Anne Lamott