Plutarch Quotes

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

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it.

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

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I can live with myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

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.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

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

I've made my peace with myself.

When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Work hard on yourself; don't be hard on yourself.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

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.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.