Criticism Quotes

• Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 12, 2014

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Errors, Talking

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

  John Britt Daniel

  Hurt, People, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Listening, Attention, Matter

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Parody, Caricatures

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 28

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• Criticism should be a casual conversation.

  W. H. Auden

  Should, Conversation, Casual

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• I like criticism. It makes you strong.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Strong, Inspiration

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weapons, Weak, Critics

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

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• Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

  Philippe Nericault Destouches

  Art, Easy, Difficult

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Judging, Firsts, Standards

  Samuel Johnson (2011). “Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.2341, BookBaby

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  Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Heart, Positivity

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

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• A louse in the locks of literature.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Locks, Literature, Critics

  Said of Churton Collins to Edmund Gosse, in Evan Charteris 'Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse' (1931) ch. 14

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• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Relationship, Leadership

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• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Weight Loss, Genius

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• There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Envy, Gossip

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• People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Judgment, Overconfident

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• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

  Frank A. Clark

  Encouragement, Rain, Hard Work

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• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

  Jean Cocteau

  Criticize, Critics

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Quiet, Serene

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.267, Xist Publishing

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