Criticize Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin

Fool, Complain, Fools

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

Time, Home, Government

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

Love, Forget, May

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Time, Friends, Painful

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Time, Busy

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Country, America

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
Simon Cowell

Attitude, Someone, Tell

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

Care, Simple, Big

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Creation, Fault, Finding

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
Lil Wayne

Music, Sports, Game

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Time, Great, Future

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Tell

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
George H. W. Bush

Understand, Hurting

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LeBron James

Giving, Night, Give

Criticize the act, not the person.
Mary Kay Ash

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.
Paul Ryan

Win, Ignore, Ridiculous

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush

Good, Book, Giving

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush

Change, Work, Mind

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
Taylor Swift

Somebody, Wants, Fine

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
Marco Rubio

Today, Simple, Someone

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones

Effort, Anyone, Suggestion

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl Lagerfeld

Care, Opinion, Valuable

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
Benjamin Netanyahu

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
Jerry Saltz

Matter, Opinions, Nobody

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
Jimmy Carter

Government, Pretty, Same

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
Mick Jagger

Life, Happy, Fashion

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley

Work, Mind, Tired

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James

Fine, Appreciate, Relation

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty White

Lie, Days, Humans

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