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Quotes About Criticism

Before you open your mouth to point out someone else's flaws, take a quick look at yourself and make sure you're perfect first!
~ Unknown
Don't let people's compliments get to your head and don't let their criticism get your heart.
~ Unknown
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
~ Helen Rowland
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~ John Churton Collins
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.
~ Unknown
If you want people to notice your faults, start giving advice.
~ Unknown
Haters motivate me, I may let them see me stumble but they can never see me fall.
~ Unknown
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
~ Elizabeth Harrison
Letting others guide your future through their uninvited comments is permitting them to push you off a cliff and hope for the best...you either stand your ground or let others lead you to disaster.
~ Unknown
There are those who criticize everything. There are those who appreciate everything because no matter what, they are able to recognize the blessings of God around them, always.
~ Terry Mark
Be slow to criticize. And fast to appreciate.
~ Unknown
I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
~ Walter Lippmann
I imagined how much pressure he must have felt as a reviewer who could destroy entire careers. Who would want that sort of power? Especially over something as simple and charming as food?
~ Unknown
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.
~ Vikram Seth
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
~ Vikram Seth
Don't be afraid of criticism; criticise yourself often.
~ Unknown
Many people count other people's faults and ignore their own.
~ Unknown
The person who is always criticizing others is usually the one who deserves criticism the most.
~ Unknown
The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others'.
~ Unknown
Those who search for the defects of others don't know their own defects.
~ Unknown
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
~ Ville Valo