Philip James Bailey Quotes

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

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

I don't get along much with myself.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

When I do something wrong, I take it pretty personal because I want to be perfect.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

Shut off the internal bashing.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

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

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Stop shoulding on yourself

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

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

If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.