56 Quotes About Self-criticism

It’s difficult to see your thoughts when you are in your thoughts.

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

Mirrors: they show you what you lack, not what you have.

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World

Don't be a victim of your thoughts.

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Am I being unfair? Is it only my self-hatred playing me a trick? Self-hatred is a gendered feeling: in a man it makes him a wimp; in a woman it's the natural order to feel defective.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.