Able Quote by Margaret Chase Smith

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

— Adlai Stevenson I

“If you develop self-criticism, it won't be that much harder to receive the criticism of others.”

— Assegid Habtewold

“We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back…

— Carol Tavris

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

— H. Burke Peterson

“Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!”

— Bryant McGill

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

— Anonymous

People Criticize Others For Faults That They Have Themselves. Or Make Accusations That Are Equally Applicable To Themselves:

— Pacifiersucker

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

— Mark Batterson

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

— Mason Cooley

“We are often our own harshest critics”

— Megan Hart

“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in…

— T.S. Eliot

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

— Donald Barthelme