Criticism Quotes

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

Pain, Human, May

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

American, Public, President

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Men, Sacrifice, Married

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Sorry, Him

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden

Either, Weakness, Praise

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

Rather, Trouble, Praise

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Able, Greatness, Lies

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing, Friend, Purpose

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Wisdom, Few

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

Prejudice, Plausible

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Themselves, Fury, Departure

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

Rain, Enough, Growth

I like criticism. It makes you strong.
LeBron James

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley

Alone, Long, Friends

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
Renny Harlin

Hard, Give, Else

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

Best, Saying, Real

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, White, Jump

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward

Love, Long, Praise

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka

Freedom, Greatest, Absence

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
E. M. Forster

Before, Motto, Speak

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays

Work, Hard, Able

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith

Human, Courtesy, Entitled

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

Nothing, Passion, Fire

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan

Art, Darkness, Might

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran

Understand, Others, Read

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

Democracy, Two, Variety

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

Love, Heart, Woman

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