Phil Heath Quotes

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

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

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I'm very self-critical.

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.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

Am I impressed by myself? Nah, not really.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

I don't get along much with myself.

To be very sincere, I don't feel legit being an inspiration of anything.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

What the heck did people see in me?