if the criticism about you is true, mend your ways! If it…

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the…

— Henry Allen Ironside

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.

— Dallin H. Oaks

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

— John Wooden

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

— Steven Pressfield

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true…

— Helen Vendler

It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not the entrenched…

— Pankaj Mishra

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

— Henry David Thoreau

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

— Confucius

WIFE, A female who would rather mend your ways than your socks;

— Nikhil Saluja

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The best friend is not necessarily someone who would always lend his hand to go with the set trend, rather one who takes better…

— Anonymous

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

— Geneen Roth

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed