Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

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

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

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

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 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.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

You don't want to vilify your ego.

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

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

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

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

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

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?