Saturday 27 May 2017

Criticism Sayings and Quotes



A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.    

Laurence J. Peter





Don't call the alligator, big mouth until you have crossed the river.    

Belizean (on criticism)





Don't judge anyone unless you've walked in their moccasins one moon.    

Native American Proverb





Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.    

Ben Franklin (1706-1790)





It is easier to criticize than to do better.    

Swiss (on criticism)





Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me.    

unknown





The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.    

Korean (on criticism)





The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting.    

Vietnamese (on criticism)





The pen is mightier than the sword.    

unknown





The rattan basket criticizes the palm    

ed bag, yet both are full of holes. - Filipino (on criticism)





The worst enemy you have is right in your head.    

unknown





When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.    

Confucious ()





Worthless people blame their karma.    

Burmese (on criticism)





You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in front of you.    

unknown, thanks to "riverrat"





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





Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark





There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.    

Joseph Addison





I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler





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

Elbert Hubbard





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

Norman Vincent Peale





Don't criticize what you can't understand.    

Bob Dylan





To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Aristotle





He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.    

Abraham Lincoln





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

Ralph Waldo Emerson





People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham





Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.    

Unknown Author





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 Author





Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.    

Emmet Fox





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

Dale Carnegie





How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli




Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton





Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.    

Unknown Author





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





Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones





If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller





Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.    

Howard Mumford Jones





Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.    

James Luther Adams







A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.    

David Brinkley





The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean De La Bruyere





If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.    

Fred Allen





The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.    

James Allen





Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.    

Paul Arden





Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash





Criticism should be a casual conversation.    

W.H Auden





Remember that all is opinion.

Marcus Aurelius





The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde





A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell





Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.    

Sam Rayburn





Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Unknown Author





The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

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