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?

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.

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.

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.

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.