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99 quotations on criticism from Inc. com
https://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/100-motivational-quotes-that-will-help-you-handle-criticism.html
Here are some quotes to help you think about criticism: giving it, receiving it, and understanding it.
1. "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
2. "When criticized, consider the source." --Unknown
3. "If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion." --Calvin Coolidge
4. "The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." --Elbert Hubbard
5. "We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him." --Michel de Montaigne
6. "When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves." --Publius Syrus
7. "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." --Oscar Wilde
8. "He who throws dirt always loses ground." --Unknown
9. "You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." --Lou Holtz
10. "The dread of criticism is the death of genius." --William Gilmore Simms
11. "He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help." --Abraham Lincoln
12. "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." --Norman Vincent Peale
13. "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." --John Wooden
14. "Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it." --Seth Godin
15. "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." --Norman Vincent Peale
16. "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." --attributed to Aristotle
17. "A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism." --Will Self
18. "It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is very easy; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome." --Plutarch
19. "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them." --Plato
20. "The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves." --Albert Einstein
21. "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. "If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." --François de La Rochefoucauld
23. "Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." --Elvis Presley
24. "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." --Wendell Phillips
25. "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." --William Lonsdale Watkinson
26. "Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought." --Margaret Chase Smith
27. "If we are bold enough to point out problems, we must be brave enough to try to solve them." --Robert Alan Silverstein
28. "If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it." --Mark Twain
29. "One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism." --Carl Sagan
30. "Blame is safer than praise." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. "Don't let compliments get to your head and don't let criticism get to your heart." -- Lysa TerKeurst
32. "Criticism is a privilege that you earn--it shouldn't be your opening move in an interaction." --Malcolm Gladwell
33. "Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism are all too frequently those who...ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism--the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought." --Margaret Chase Smith
34. "Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's." --E. M. Forster
35. "Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values."
--Marshall Rosenberg
36. "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
37. "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." --Frank A. Clark
38. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." --Napoleon Hill
39. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life." --Winston Churchill
40. "If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them." --Mohandas K. Gandhi
41. "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." --Socrates
42. "One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself." --Mark Twain
43. "My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism." --Victoria Woodhull
44. "What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism." --Octavio Paz
45. "Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing." --Joyce Carol Oates
46. "If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment." --Debasish Mridha
47. "Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism." --Anonymous
48. "Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive." --John Douglas
49. "I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free." --Georgia O'Keeffe
50. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." --Benjamin Disraeli
51. "It is usually best to be generous with praise and cautious with criticism." --Anonymous
52. "Don't criticize what you can't understand." --Bob Dylan
53. "Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn--and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." --Dale Carnegie
54. "But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism." --Eric Wright
55. "Criticism is information that will help you grow." --Hendrie Weisinger
56. "Concern over criticism clogs creativity." --Duane Alan Hahn
57. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt
58. "Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them." --Anonymous
59. "Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting." --Emmit Fox
60. "A critic is a legless man who teaches running." --Channing Pollock
61. "The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things." --Jean De La Bruyere
62. "A cynic is prematurely disappointed with the future." --Anonymous
63. "Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own." --Anonymous
64. "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." --Sam Rayburn
65. "There is no defense against criticism except obscurity." --Joseph Addison
66. "All my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it." --Ted Turner
67. "You are a glorious, shining sword and criticism is the whetstone. Do not run from the whetstone or you will become dull and useless. Stay sharp." --Duane Alan Hahn
68. "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." --William Faulkner
69. "When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical." --Anonymous
70. "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." --Charles Schwab
71. "The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author." --Isaac Disraeli
72. "Pretty words are not always true, and true words are not always pretty." --Aiki Flinthart
73. "Sandwich criticism between two layers of praise." --Mary Kay Ash
74. "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." --Neil Gaiman
75. "It's simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them." --Jean Paul Richter
76. "It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections." --Daisaku Ikeda
77. "Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it." --Anonymous
78. "The person who offends writes as if it was written on sand, and the person who is offended reads it as if it were written on marble." --Italian proverb
79. "Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes." --Anonymous
80. "Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat." --Anonymous
81. "As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation." --Hans Selye
82. "Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl." --Nellie McClung
83. "In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this." --Willie Mays
84. "When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable." --Judith Martin
85. "I like criticism. It makes you strong." --LeBron James
86. "If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good." --Ezra Pound
87. "It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favor, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes." --Leo Tolstoy
88. "He only profits from praise who values criticism." --Heinrich Heine
89. "The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy." --Denis Waitley
90. "The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy." --Robert E. Lee
91. "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." --Winston Churchill
92. "The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism." --Wole Soyinka
93. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." --Franklin P. Jones
94. "Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on." --Paula Abdul
95. "Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love." --Robert Frank
96. "Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure." --Kingsley Amis
97. "While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful." --Erwin McManus
98. "Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good." --Van Morrison
99. "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." --W. Somerset Maugham
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