Kris Carr Quotes

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

You are no better than you should be.

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.

You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.

I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me.

It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.

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.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

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.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

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.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

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.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.