Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. — Charles Horton Cooley
If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him. — James Albert Pike
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. — Fulton J. Sheen
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? — Marcus Aurelius
Find fault with thyself rather than with others. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves. — William Barclay
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism. — David Brin
Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself. — Iyanla Vanzant
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. — Dale Carnegie
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks. — Shannon Alder
To get better you must reflect on your mistakes. — Patrick Bet-David
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. — Dale Carnegie
Short Self Criticism Quotes
Criticism should be a casual conversation. — W. H. Auden
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others. — Muhammad
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. — Demosthenes
Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it. — Don Sutton
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. — Deepak Chopra
By others faults the wise correct their own. — Proverbs
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable. — John Wooden
it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. — Warren Buffett
Self Criticism Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
What Is Self Criticism Quotes
What you need is a challenge network. I think of a challenge network as the group of your most thoughtful critics who are able to hold up a mirror so that you can see your blind spots and then know what you need to rethink. — Adam Grant
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? — T. S. Eliot
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring. — John Eliot
We are what we believe we are.
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too. — Lynn Johnston
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint. — Pema Chodron
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. — Alan Perlis
I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though. — Billie Eilish
Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions. — Robert S. Kaplan
I'm living up to my own self-critical standard of doing theater in a lead position, the way I feel like I should be doing it. People are liking it, and it's all working. Just that, in any actor's life, is profound. That's what I was enjoying with the process. — Andy Karl
Self Benefit Quotes
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands. — Ibn Arabi
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. — Dogen
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done. — Arnold J. Toynbee
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened. — David Richo
The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. — Joe Rogan
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor. — John F. Kennedy
If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives. — Buddha
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others. — Thubten Yeshe
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion. — Harry Browne
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance. — Shantideva
Self-critical Quotes
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. — Ralph Ellison
I think that most people underestimate the amount of effort that it takes to go from good to great, so they have this second voice that criticizes everything they do. — Alex Hormozi
I was so used to people liking me. But being hated? I hate it. I hate being hated! — Logan Paul
You can’t keep improving if you fear others will disapprove of what you’re doing. — Tim Grover
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing. — Dan Millman
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism — Muhammad Iqbal
Self Judgment Quotes
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
How someone else decides to classify me or judge me or categorize me is none of my business. — Rich Roll
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. — Tucker Carlson
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else. — Joko Beck
The camel never sees his own hump but that of his brothers is always in his eyes. — Moroccan Proverbs
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. — American Proverbs
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet. — Wayne Dyer
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame. — Brené Brown
Self Analysis Quotes
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
At the hearing of the word of God, the corrupt and sinful mind of an individual begins to do a self analysis internally. — Enoch Adeboye
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. — Carroll Quigley
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis. — Louis C. K.
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. — Paul Klee
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. — Marcel Duchamp
Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition. — George Stigler
By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality. — Anton Corbijn
Self Opinion Quotes
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. — George Muller
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing. — Ellen G. White
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it. — Tina Fey
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. — Judah Smith
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone. — Naval Ravikant
Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. — 50 Cent
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. — J. K. Rowling
Self Reflection Quotes
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer
You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil Wayne
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — Albert Bandura
What you see in yourself is what you see in the world. — Afghan Proverbs
Self Evaluation Quotes
When individuals feel listened to, they tend to listen to themselves more carefully and to openly evaluate and clarify their own thoughts and feelings. — Chris Voss
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related. — Bruce Lee
When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive. — Jeff Cooper
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience — Albert Bandura
Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related. — Bruce Lee
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards — Albert Bandura
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. — Jack Welch
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance. — Albert Ellis
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable. — Lilian Katz
All you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you’ve created, and now you’ve got a mental barrier to go along with the physical barriers. — Tim Grover
Think clearly from the ground up. Understand and explain from first principles. Ignore society and politics. Acknowledge what you have. Control your emotions. — Naval Ravikant
No one says his own buttermilk is sour. — Afghan Proverbs
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature. — Wim Hof
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images. — Camille Paglia
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. — Frederick Salomon Perls
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve. — Michael Greger
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius
Before you point out others people’s shortcomings, correct your own first. — Filipino Proverbs
I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized. — Akira Toriyama
A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life. — Anuj
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. — William Arthur Ward
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov
Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world. — Henry Giroux
Social media is full of people that can spot toxic behavior in everyone but themselves. The world doesn’t need more critics, it needs more self-awareness. — Steven Bartlett
Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority. — Naval Ravikant
Nobody remembers your mistakes as much as you do. — Mark Manson
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment. — Dale Carnegie
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. — Albert Einstein
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it. — Leonardo da Vinci
Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others. — Chetan Bhagat
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. — Kelly McGonigal
Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do. — Salvador Allende
The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression. — Angeles Arrien
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers. — Judith Martin
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience. — Savielly Tartakower
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