John Hewson Quotes

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

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

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

I don't get along much with myself.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

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.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

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

I have no desire to look at myself.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

There's no anger in my act towards anyone other than myself... and maybe airlines.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

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.

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

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.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

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.