Criticism Quotes

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

— Marvin J. Ashton

“We use criticism as a fake participation.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Self-praise is half slander

— Proverb

“The critics only made me work harder.”

— Muhammad Ali

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody kicks a dead dog

— Dale Carnegie

Dare to risk public criticism.

— Mary Kay Ash

Fear of criticism often assures failure.

— Ally Mbululo

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

— Derek Jeter

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

— Terry McMillan

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

— Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

— Walter Hill

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

— Sir Walter Scott

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

— Charles Babbage

To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

— William Blake

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

— Deepak Chopra

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort…

— Anonymous

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

— Anonymous

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid…

— Steve Ross

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism.…

— Eamon Dunphy

“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist;…

— H. L. Mencken

The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home…

— Aleksandra Mir

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our…

— Vint Cerf

Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear…

— Fiona Apple

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would…

— Paddy Ashdown

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real…

— Robert E. Lee

The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to…

— Carl Sagan

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the…

— John C. Maxwell

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers…

— Roger Scruton

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too…

— Paul Krassner

I understand how democracy works. Quite a little bit of criticism in it, which is fine. That's fine. That's part of the…

— George W. Bush

“Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing out what you think is wrong with…

— H. Norman Wright

“If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined…

— Werner Heisenberg

You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds…

— Keith Brantly