Quotes on Criticism

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,_x000D_ _x000D_ Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,_x000D_ _x000D_ Strong and content I travel the open road.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.