Quotes About Criticism

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

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

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.

Si domandano consigli soltanto per non seguirli, oppure, se si seguono, è per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati.

En général, on ne demande de conseils, disait-il, que pour ne les pas suivre; ou, si on les a suivis, que pour avoir quelqu'un à qui l'on puisse faire le reproche de les avoir donnés.»

As the American participates in all that is done in his country, he thinks himself obliged to defend whatever may be censured; for it is not only his country which is attacked upon these occasions, but it is himself. The consequence is, that his national pride resorts to a thousand artifices, and to all the petty tricks of individual vanity.

It isn't until an adult criticizes the picture and makes derogatory comments … that children lose their confidence and stop drawing. If young people spent as much time drawing as they do learning [the] alphabet … they would all make good pictures and maybe never even need to draw a straight line.