Mark Manson Quotes

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was very critical of myself, and then I met and got to know and understand my husband. He helped me turn myself around. He had such a positive attitude towards life.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.