The most effective self-criticism is to also learn the art of self-encouragement. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you… — Matt Nagy Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's… — Seierstad Åsne Copy Share Image
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The question is: Do we have a shadow government? And if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is guiding us… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long -… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“Inside Critics The critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our… — Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.” — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
“If you develop self-criticism, it won't be that much harder to receive the criticism of others.” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
“Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
