Quotes About Learn from criticism

"But if you can learn to take criticism in stride, with some genuine reflection on how you can use it as a basis for improvement, you can come to realize that criticism can actually be a gift."

— Anonymous

"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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"People with a growth mind-set learn from criticism, people with a fixed mind-set ignore useful negative feedback."

— Carol Dweck

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism."

— Anonymous

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

— Plato

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

— David Brinkley

"To the one who offered it, I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself."

— Buddha

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

— LeBron James

"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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"Don't let compliments get to your head and don't let criticism get to your heart."

— Lysa TerKeurst

"If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?"

— Unknown

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."

— Elbert Hubbard

"Criticism based on anger and contempt'will only lead to destruction of the relationship."

— Mel Robbins

"Nobody likes being criticized. But how you handle it makes all the difference. If you lock up and become defensive, you're likely to waste a lot of time feeling bad--and repeating the same behaviour that was a problem to begin with."

— Anonymous