Mandy Patinkin Quotes

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

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.

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 don't see myself as a perfectionist.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

I don't get along much with myself.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

I'm my own worst critic.

We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.

I am my own biggest critic.

Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.

When I wasn't doing well, I was too tough on myself but I truly tried to minimise it. So, I would always appreciate the fact that, things are not going to go well all the time.

Shut off the internal bashing.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.