Inspiring Quotes Criticism

1. Any fool can criticize, conde~mn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
2. – Dale Carnegie
3. “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
4. – Jean de La Bruy~re
5. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
6. – Aristotle
7. “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
8. – John Wooden
9. “Criticism is an indirect form of elf-boasting.”
10. – Emmet Fox
11. “When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
12. – Judith Martin
13. “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
14. – Neil Gaiman
15. “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
16. – Norman Vincent Peale
17. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”


18. – Unknown
19. “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
20. – Daisaku Ikeda
21. “The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.”
22. – William Faulkner
23. “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
24. – Calvin Coolidge
25. “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a~ spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
26. – Charles Schwab
27. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
28. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
29. “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
30. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “Don’t critic~ize what you don’t understand, on. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
32. – Elvis Presley
33. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”
34. – Frank A. Clark
35. “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”
36. – Gary Chapman
37. “Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.”
38. – Unknown
39. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
40. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but w~ho does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusia~sm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails wh~ile daring greatly.
41. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
42. – Theodore Roosevelt
43. “Before you go and critici~ze the younger eneration, just remember who raised them.”
44. – Unknown
45. “Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.”
46. – Steve Goodier
47. “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
48. – Winston Churchill
49. “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
50. – Abraham Lincoln
51. “I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.”
52. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
53. “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.”
54. – Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself”
56. – Mark Twain
57. “That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When w~e differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”
58. – Jonathan Swift
59. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain nd most fools do.”
60. – Benjamin Franklin
61. “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.”
62. – William Arthur Ward
63. “A man interrupted one of the Buddha’s lectures with a flood of abuse.
64. Buddha waited until he had finished and then asked him:
65. If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?
66. To the one who offered it, said the man.
67. Then, said the Buddha, I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself.”
68. “Children need models ra~ther than critics.”
69. – Joseph Joubert
70. “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we ould be under similar circumstances.”
71. – Abraham Lincoln
72. “We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism w~ithout being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake o wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.