Beating Yourself Up Quotes

• I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dream, Missing Someone, Mistake

  Kelley Armstrong (2011). “The Gathering”, p.157, Penguin Group

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• Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Book, Creating

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• There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

  Mary Harron

  Focus, No Point, Beating Yourself

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Yesterday, Desire, Happened

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• Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mistake, Apology, Focus

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 18, 2017

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• If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Loving Yourself, Trying, Rich

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• Surround yourself with positive people.

  Melanie

  Inspirational, Positive, Jealousy

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• Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fighting, Appreciate, Focus

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 29, 2016

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• Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

  Jorge Cruise

  Track, Focus, Challenges

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• One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

  Susan Jeffers

  Success, Way, Steps

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• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  Gale Sayers

  Moving Up, Pages Turning, Nfl

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Self

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• I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Thinking, Sitting, Computer

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Self Esteem, People

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

  Teri Hatcher

  Thinking, Done, Magazines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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