- The dread of criticism is the death of genius. – William Gilmore Simms
- I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic. – Leonard Bernstein
- Think before you speak is criticism’s motto, speak before you think, creation’s. – E. M. Forster
- The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. – Oscar Wilde
- I like criticism. It makes you strong. – LeBron James
- If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on. – Johnny Iuzzini
- He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln
- The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. – Denis Waitley
- Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. – Tena Desae
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. – Mary Kay Ash
- 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
- Do not seek praise. Seek criticism. – Paul Arden
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- Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks. – Shannon L. Alder
- Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism. – James Luther Adams
- 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
- Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. Jodi Picoult
- Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. – Abraham Lincoln
- How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. – Benjamin Disraeli
- You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. – John Wooden
- Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. – Emmet Fox
- If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back. – Ellen Swallow Richards
- The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. – Jean De La Bruyere
- People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. – W. Somerset Maugham
- Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts. – Rodolfo Costa
- I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johannes Kepler
- To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. – Aristotle
- The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. – G.K. Chesterton
- It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. – Daisaku Ikeda
- Don’t criticize what you can’t understand. – Bob Dylan
- Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. – Andy Warhol
- There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison
- People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.- Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Some people find fault like there is a reward for it– Zig Ziglar
- A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.- Laurence J. Peter
- A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. – Will Self
- The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale
- I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. – Georgia O’Keefe
- The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka
- Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes. – Elvis Presley
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- Take the harsh criticism along with the compliments. – Matt Lauer
- If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.– Malcolm X
- 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
- I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It’s important to work hard, stay humble, and not let the criticism or the compliments go to your head. – Jessica Sanchez
- As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults. – L. Frank Baum
- If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you’re never going to improve. – Cole Sprouse
- Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. – Paula Abdul
- Positive criticism is a good friend. Insincere flattery is a fake friend. – Dr T.P.Chia
- 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. – Steve Goodier
- The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. – Elbert Hubbard
- If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others. – Mahathir Mohamad
- Criticism is prejudice made plausible. – H. L. Mencken
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- No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected. – Amitabh Bachchan
- I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It’s the way you react as a footballer. – Timothy F. Cahill
- When people criticise you, you’ve got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I’ve tried to do. – Gordon Brown
- You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked, try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise L. Hay
- You can’t progress unless you learn not only to receive criticism, but also invite criticism.- Gulzar