Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

— Octavio Paz

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing…

— Octavio Paz

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.

— Anonymous

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

— Javier Bardem

Revolution begins with the self, in the self… We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

— George Eliot

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

— Georg Buchner

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

— Elvis Mitchell

You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

— Jessica Ortner

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“Greatness begins with self-belief. You are the beginning, the possibility, not the culmination of a final chapter.”

— D.L. Lewis

All self improvement begins with self growth.

— Senoraroy

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

— Rachel Ward

“Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid…

— Herbert Spencer