Thirty-four Inspiring Quotes on Criticism (and How to Handle It)

34 Inspiring Quotes on Criticism (and How to Handle It) -- EXTRACT

by Henrik Edberg on February 10, 2016.

https://www.positivityblog.com/quotes-on-criticism/

1. – Dale Carnegie
2. “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
   – Jean de La Bruyère
3. – Aristotle
4. – John Wooden
5. “Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.”
   – Emmet Fox
6. “When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
   – Judith Martin
7. – Neil Gaiman
8. – Norman Vincent Peale
9. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”
   – Unknown
10. “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
    – Daisaku Ikeda
11. “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
12. “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
    – Calvin Coolidge
13. “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
14. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
    – Marcus Tullius Cicero
15. “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
    – Elvis Presley
17. – Frank A. Clark
18. “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”
    – Gary Chapman
19. “Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.”
    – Unknown
20. “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.
    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 who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, 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 while daring greatly.
    So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
    – Theodore Roosevelt
21. “Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.”
    – Unknown
22. “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
23. “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
24. “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
    – Abraham Lincoln
25. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
26. – Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself”
    – Mark Twain
28. “That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”
    – Jonathan Swift
29. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
    – Benjamin Franklin
30. “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
31. “A man interrupted one of the Buddha’s lectures with a flood of abuse.
    Buddha waited until he had finished and then asked him:
    If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?
    To the one who offered it, said the man.
    Then, said the Buddha, I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself.”
32. – Joseph Joubert
33. – Abraham Lincoln
34. – Michel de Montaigne