Quotes About Criticism

"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

"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

"Blame is safer than praise."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy."

— Denis Waitley

"Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat."

— Anonymous

"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

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

— Aristotle

"We all know that criticism can sometimes be hard to take, but we also learn very early on that it usually makes for a stronger and better business."

— Jet Blue

"There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

— Maya Angelou, contemplating courage in the face of evil

"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."

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting."

— Emmet Fox

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

"There is no defence against criticism except obscurity."

— Joseph Addison

"Criticism hurts for a reason, and the explanation lies in neuroscience"

— Mel Robbins

"The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized."

— Ulysses S Grant

"When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves."

— Publius Syrus

"Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values."

— Marshall Rosenberg

"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism."

— Will Self

"Criticism is information that will help you grow."

— Hendrie Weisinger

"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

"I am more and more convinced that whenever one has to vent an opinion on the actions or on the writings of others, unless this be done from a certain one-sided enthusiasm, or from a loving interest in the person and the work, the result is hardly worth gathering up. Sympathy and enjoyment in what we see is in fact the only reality, and, from such reality, reality as a natural product follows. All else is vanity."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"He who throws dirt always loses ground."

— Unknown

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

— Heinrich Heine

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."

— Dale Carnegie

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

— Channing Pollock

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

— Malcolm X

"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new"

— Jeff Bezos

"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

"The dread of criticism is the death of genius."

— William Gilmore Simms

"It's not fun to be criticize, but it can help you if you learn from it."

— Anonymous

"When we associate abilities with a part of our identity, receiving constructive criticism can feel more like a personal attack."

— Carol Dweck

"We rise by lifting others."

— Robert Ingersoll