Inner Critic Quotes

#1. I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails.

Judy L Mohr

#2. Any time you start thinking that being tough on yourself will make you better, you give your inner critic a foothold in your life and a welcome mat in your head.

Dani Shugart

#3. Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.

Steven Furtick

#5. Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.

Catherine Cardinal

#6. I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. I'm still sleepy, a good frame of mind for writing - the inner critic snuggles deeper under the silk comforter and lapses back into unconsciousness while the dreamer and I begin work undisturbed. I

Alison Gresik

#10. Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

Alanis Morissette

#12. My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Mary Garden

#13. People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic' ... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.

Lauren Mackler

#14. When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

Patrick Califia

#15. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Steven Franssen

#16. I had always wanted to see the world, and the PGA Tour was always going to be there.

Peter Uihlein

#17. That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

Lew Wasserman

#18. I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Lyor Cohen

#19. In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

Nathaniel Branden

#20. Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Margaret Cho

#21. He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep - I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

Steven Franssen

#23. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#24. Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

George Cukor

#25. I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

Walter Kirn

#26. If you were Meyer, who would you invest your money in? Some politician named Clams Linguini? Or a nice Protestant boy from Whittier, California?

Don Fulsom