Albert Ellis Quotes

Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure

Shut off the internal bashing.

I'm crap and a fatty.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!

I don't get along much with myself.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something.

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.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

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

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

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

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

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.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

I think it's a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.

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

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.