Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

Shout praise and whisper criticism. — Don Meyer
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either. — John Wooden
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. — Robert Breault
Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people… — Margaret Chase Smith
Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it,… — Louis Pasteur
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. — Maya Angelou
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher… — J. William Fulbright
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality. — Winston Churchill
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. — Winston Churchill
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. — Mark Twain
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very… — Charles Caleb Colton
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is… — Brooks Atkinson
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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