Frank McCourt Quotes

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

I'm not good at watching myself.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I am critical of myself.

I'm very critical of myself.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

I've criticized myself over the years.

I don't know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

I am my own biggest critic.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.