Quotes About Your Inner Critic

#1. 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

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

Steven Furtick

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Jim Dale

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

Sharon Salzberg

#8. So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

Mark Zuckerberg

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

Catherine Cardinal

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

Jim Gaffigan

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

Sharon Salzberg

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

Nathaniel Branden

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H.L. Mencken

#16. The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that offer little support - and yet, teachers are finding success every day.

Tucker Elliot

#17. I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

Scott McClellan

#18. Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Lactantius

#19. All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new.

Jeff Tweedy

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

Alanis Morissette

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

Steven Franssen

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

#23. The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#24. 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

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

Mary Garden

#26. 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

#27. Be suspicious of the litigious.

Stewart Stafford

#28. 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