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Criticism Quotes by Dale Carnegie
- The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
- Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.
- Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
- Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too…
- If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge…
- Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.…
- Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds…
- Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.
- There is no such thing as constructive criticism.
- Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable…
- Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
- criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
- Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
More Criticism Quotes
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting. — David Beckham