Quotes About Criticism

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

It is a well-known psychological fact that those who are ever ready to abuse others cannot bear the slightest touch of criticism from others.

His brother and sister were the dearest people, but dreadfully good; they thought everything wrong. - William Price describing Fanny and Edmund to Georgiana Darcy

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

People called her a bitch and a whore.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

The humiliation of being in a poor play, of playing a shabby role, of appearing before disgruntled audiences, if any, of being curdled by hostile reviews, can outrage all human dignity. Being caught in a long-run success is almost as bad. The fearful monotony, the boredom of saying the same words every night, at the same minute, has unhinged the mind of more than one actress.

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Everyone was always talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

This was, I realized, similar to Winifred's position. But we came at it from opposite directions—I from that of being more interested in reveling in the good in people and not wasting time with those who had none to offer, while she preferred slander and mockery. I'd never once heard her compliment anyone. When had a kind word ever escaped her hard lips? Misery was her trade and I wanted no part of it.

I go online and read the comments about me. I'm always nervous that they're going to say something mean. But a lot of people say nice things, too. It's important to keep yourself in balance. When someone writes something about me that's not true, I just try to look at it like it's funny.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine.