When someone criticizes you quotes

You can’t avoid criticism. No matter what you do, someone is going to have an issue with you. You handle criticism by realizing it’s not personal, it’s just part of doing your thing. The only way to not receive criticism is to do nothing, never try and be no one.   

“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.” ― Joseph Addison

2. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ― Aristotle

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3. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

 “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life.” ― Winston Churchill

Haters gonna hate, that’s what they do! Expect it, and ignore it. Once you refuse to be offended by or even take notice of what they say you can’t be hurt by it. Have confidence in yourself and don’t let it taint your reality.

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.” ― Jean Sibelius

7. “Nevermind what haters say, ignore them ‘til they fade away” ― TI

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8. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” ― Brigham Young

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” ― Zig Ziglar

10. “Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” ― Les Brown

True self-esteem and a strong sense of self-worth come from within, not without. Whether or not someone values you or thinks well of you or not, can’t impact your value. Only you can do that.

11. “Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.” ― Gloria Gaynor

12. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” ― Rob Liano

“Remember the world will judge you based on how you judge yourself.” ― Vincent Mueller

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14. “Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” ― Unknown

15. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ― Unknown

Ouch, criticism can be harsh sometimes (even if it’s “valid”), so how to take it? It’s all about how you react and respond if you choose to. Give a compliment, smile, be kind, don’t get defensive. Always consider who and why you’re being criticized, and learn from it you can. If not carry on!

“If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment. ” ― Debasish Mridha

17. “Don’t mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it.” ― Anonymous

18. “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.” ― Nellie McClung

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19. “Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive.” ― John Douglas

“When criticized, consider the source.”― Unknown

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

22. “Kill them with kindness, slay them with a smile and murder them with a kiss.” ― A.Giannoccaro

Everyone who has done anything in this world has been criticised or worse. Not everyone is going to get what you’re trying to accomplish or be able to stand by you. Don’t ask for permission and ignore their little minds and don’t let it diminish you.

23. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ― Albert Einstein

24. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” ― Nikola Tesla

25. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.” ― Tyra Banks

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26. “You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” ― Unknown

28. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ” ― Ayn Rand

Don’t do it for praise or for criticism, do it for yourself. Praise and criticism are opposite sides of the same coin, either way, don’t let it get to your head or your heart. Praise can sometimes be as harmful as criticism if you don’t take it well.

29. “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

30. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” ― Tina Fey 

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31. “Don’t let compliments get to your head and don’t let criticism get to your heart.” ― Lysa TerKeurst

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

33. “I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe

Not all criticism is “bad” or harmful. Criticism can drive you to be better, stronger, but when delivered gently and with the aim of being constructive, not destructive.

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

35. “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” ― Winston Churchill

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

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37.  “Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.” ―Wendy Starland

“Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism.” – Anonymous

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

If you must criticize, be sure you’re doing it with the right heart and with the intention of helping.  Do not criticize what you do not understand or have no experience in. When giving constructive criticism, be sure to deliver with praise.

40. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” ― Unknown

“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections. ” ― Daisaku Ikeda

42. “One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself” ― Mark Twain

43. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.” ― Bob Dylan

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

45. “If we are bold enough to point out problems, we must be brave enough to try to solve them.” – Robert Alan Silverstein

46. “Sandwich criticism between two layers of praise.” ― Mary Kay Ash

Greater change and progress come from being encouraged than by being criticised. Surround yourself with those who encourage you and give encouragement rather than criticism to those in your life.

47. “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. ” – Charles Schwab

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48. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.” – Steve Goodier

50. “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

 

Even if a criticism you receive is negative and destructive, it’s how you handle the criticism that matters. No matter what criticism you receive or from whom, it’s your reaction that counts.

You cannot control what anyone says to you, not a superior or boss at work, not a client or customer if you’re an entrepreneur, and definitely not a stranger and internet trolls. But, you can control how you react, receive or return it and respond to criticism. 

You can…

• React positively and unphased by any criticism
• Receive it as good advice or return it as not worth remembering
• Respond with positivity and kindness

But, dealing with criticism positively is only possible if you’re good with you, confident in what you’re doing and going to keep on keeping on no matter what opposition, criticism and hate mail you receive.

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Mantras are an amazing way to train your mind to focus on the positive (or build up your “positivity instincts”). The more you say them and repeat them in your mind the more natural being positive, and reacting positively in the face of criticism becomes.

Just print, cut and keep these positive affirmations where you can see them. From on your office wall, as a bookmark, or taped to the side of your monitor or ever to your bathroom mirror.

Remember, it’s all about your mindset and perspective, be good no matter what criticism you face.

When you’re good with you, it doesn’t matter what anyone says to you.  

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113 Criticism Quotes About Acceptance & Destructiveness (2022)

Looming for inspirational quotes about accepting criticism?

Accepting criticism is not something that anyone enjoys and seeks out.

However, if you look at people who are successful, vs. people who are often stuck, a deciding factor is often their willingness to listen to criticism and learn from it.

While not all criticism is valid, some surely is.

Decide what applies and learn from it, and let the rest go.

Look at the motivations of the person who is offering it to you.

Even if the message is not always delivered in the best manner, if the ultimate goal to keep you from making a mistake, or to help you to grow?

Even people who are simply hyper-critical, can speak kernels of truth sometimes.

Please read below some powerful thoughts on accepting criticism.

Also, check out our most popular quote article, a list of short inspirational quotes for daily wisdom. 

See the rest of our quote database for even more inspirational ideas and thoughts.

1. “He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln

2. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin

3. “When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.” – Judith Martin

4. “Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.” – Emmet Fox

5. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

6. “When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves.” – Publius Syrus

7. “The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” – Oscar Wilde

8. “When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.” – Plato

9. “Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.” – Wendell Phillips

10. “If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.” – Mark Twain

11. “It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.” – Daisaku Ikeda

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12. “The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.” – William Faulkner

13. “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” – Calvin Coolidge

14. “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.” – Charles Schwab

15. “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” – Norman Vincent Peale

16. “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” – Elvis Presley

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18. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank A. Clark

19. “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. ” – Gary Chapman

20. “Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.” – Unknown

21. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ” – Theodore Roosevelt

22. “Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.” – Unknown

23. “Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.” – Steve Goodier

24. “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

25. “I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

26. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

27. “That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.” – Jonathan Swift

28. “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

29. “A man interrupted one of the Buddha’s lectures with a flood of abuse.

Buddha waited until he had finished and then asked him:

If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?

To the one who offered it, said the man.

Then, said the Buddha, I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself.”

“Children need models rather than critics.” – Joseph Joubert

30. “We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. ” – Michel de Montaigne

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31. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar

32. “If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” – Calvin Coolidge

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

34. “We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him. ” – Michel de Montaigne

35. “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Aristotle

36. “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie

37. “He who throws dirt always loses ground.” – Unknown

38. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” – Lou Holtz

39. “One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself.” – Mark Twain

40. “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.” – Jean de La Bruyère

41. “You can’t let praise or criticisms get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. ” – John Wooden

42. “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” – John Wooden

43. “Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.” – Seth Godin

44. “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.” – Norman Vincent Peale

45. “A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.” – Will Self

46. “It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration–nay, it is very easy; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” – Plutarch

47. “The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.”  – Albert Einstein

48. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. “If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.” – François de La Rochefoucauld

50. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” – Elvis Presley

51. “Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” – Neil Gaiman

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

53. “If we are bold enough to point out problems, we must be brave enough to try to solve them.” – Robert Alan Silverstein

54. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” – Unknown

55. “One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” – Carl Sagan

56. “Blame is safer than praise.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

57. “Don’t let compliments get to your head and don’t let criticism get to your heart.”  – Lysa TerKeurst

58. “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism are all too frequently those who…ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism–the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought. ” – Margaret Chase Smith

59. “Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.” – E. M. Forster

60. “Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.” – Marshall Rosenberg

Criticism quotes to help you stay positive in the midst of a hater

61. “Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” – Abraham Lincoln

62. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

63. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank A. Clark

64. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

65. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life. ” – Winston Churchill

66. “If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi

67. “My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.” – Victoria Woodhull

68. “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.” – Octavio Paz

69. “Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.” – Joyce Carol Oates

70. “If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment.” – Debasish Mridha

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Criticism quotes to inspire and teach

71. “Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism.” – Anonymous

72. “Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive.” – John Douglas

73. “I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

74. “How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli

75. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.” – Bob Dylan

76. “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn–and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie

77. “But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.” – Eric Wright

78. “Concern over criticism clogs creativity.” – Duane Alan Hahn

79. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

80. “Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.” – Emmit Fox

81. “Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” – Socrates

Other criticism quotes and sayings

82. “A critic is a legless man who teaches running.” – Channing Pollock

83. “The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.” – Jean De La Bruyere

84. “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” – Susan Sontag

85. “People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” – W. Somerset Maugham

86. “I pay no attention to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

87. “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.” – G.K. Chesterton

88. “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. ” – Johannes Kepler

89. “Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color & use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking thru endless fields of greatness.” – Matthew Gray Gubler

90. “As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults.” – L. Frank Baum

91. “Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.” – Eli Wallach

92. “If you say something and reject any criticism, then your words truly meant to advise yourself.” – Toba Beta

93. “Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.” – Pierre Bayard

Thought-provoking criticism quotes and sayings

94. “Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.” — Shannon L. Alder

95. “Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ” — Jean Sibelius

96. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” — Tina Fey

97. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed–only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” — Nikola Tesla

98. “The dread of criticism is the death of genius.” — William Gilmore Simms

99. “The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.” — Criss Jami

100. “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” — Wole Soyinka

101. “I like criticism. It makes you strong.” — LeBron James

102. “I like constructive criticism from smart people.” — Prince

103. “If you live for the compliments, you’ll die by the criticism. ” — Charlamagne tha God

104. “Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.” — George Burns
105. “One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized” ― Dr. Amit Abraham
106. “Critics can be your most important friend. I don’t read criticism of my stuff only because when it’s bad, it’s rough-and when it’s good, it’s not good enough.” — Kevin Bacon
107. “If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” — Donald Rumsfeld
108. “In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.” ― John Steinbeck
109. “When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.” — Oscar Wilde
110. “Never answer a critic, unless he’s right.” — Bernard Baruch
111. “People who avoid all criticism fail. It’s destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.” — Tim Ferriss
112. “If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” — Malcolm X
113. “Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.”— Susan Sontag

How do you think these criticism quotes will help you?

While it might be difficult to hear and take in, let the hurt feelings and manner of the message go, and ask yourself what you can learn from it, if you can, and how it might make you even better at what you do.

This can be at work, in your relationships, or in anything that matters to you.

Take the message and not the messenger in many instances, and you will learn a great deal.

None of us is without room for improvement, and if we choose not to be defensive, to take the meaningful messages out, and to let the negative and hurt feelings go, we can only move closer toward success.

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Quotes about criticizing people (100 quotes)

It just so happens that when communicating with people around us, we tend to show our not only the best qualities of character. Therefore, our shortcomings will sooner or later be found by a critic who, from his point of view, will begin to engage in a good deed - our education. You will find quotes about criticizing people, the opinions of famous people and their attitude towards criticism in this section of the site.

The right to subject people to the most severe criticism deserves the one who convinced them of his love for them.

M. Gandhi

Silence sometimes means the most severe criticism.

C. Buxton

When the Sistine Madonna was brought to Moscow, everyone went to look at it. Faina Georgievna heard a conversation between two officials from the Ministry of Culture. One claimed that the picture did not impress him. Ranevskaya remarked:

- For so many centuries, this lady has made such people the impression that now she herself has the right to choose whom she impresses and who not!

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya

A truth proclaimed out of the blue is worse than a lie, a question raised at the wrong time only frightens, does not interfere

S. Turgenev

In order to avoid criticism, one must do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Hubbard A.

Do you know how to cause a personality disorder? Constant criticism and lack of love.

Finding the cause of evil is almost the same as finding a cure for it.

VG Belinsky

Just as a medicine does not achieve its goal if the dose is too high, so is censure and criticism when they go beyond the measure of justice.

A. Schopenhauer

The best reaction to enemy criticism is to smile and forget.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Spotting a mistake in a case does not mean proving the wrongness of the case itself.

VG Belinsky

To be able to work in a team is, first of all, to perceive criticism correctly and not be ashamed to criticize the mistakes of another.

Zelinsky N.

You have to collect the stones that are thrown at you. This is the basis of the future pedestal.

Hector Berlioz

Be quiet and orderly, be compliments and courtesy everywhere, then what scope for shamelessness, quackery, ignorance: there is no one to rebuke, there is no one to utter a terrible word!

VG Belinsky

A critic must be ready and able at any moment and at the first request to take the place of the criticized by him and carry out his work productively and competently; otherwise, criticism turns into an impudent self-sufficient force and becomes a brake on the path of cultural progress. Weller M

I don't want to know what people are saying behind my back - I already have a rather high opinion of myself.

Oscar Wilde

Criticism would, of course, be a terrible tool for everyone, if, fortunately, it itself was not subject to criticism.

V. Belinsky

Criticism, of course, is capable of ruining any thought.

P. Kapitsa

If a person cannot say anything good about himself, but he wants to say it, he starts to say bad things about others.

Mikhail Litvak

The very genius needs criticism that shows his perfection and shortcomings.

AL Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

When someone reproaches you for something, he shows something that could become your advantage.

Werber B.

If you do something wrong and no one reprimands you, it means that they just gave up on you.

True enjoyment of art is impossible without a critical attitude.

B. Brecht

Criticism is poison for the weak and medicine for the strong.

K. Melikhan

I have remembered this lesson for the rest of my life. When you realize that you are doing something badly, but no one tells you anything, this is a bad sign. Maybe you don’t want to hear criticism, but most often we are criticized by those who really love us, who care about us.

Randy Pausch

To be a great critic, you need the ability to be a good writer. Only talent is able to expand the horizons of taste.

F. Wilme

Few people have the wisdom to prefer deceptive praise to benevolent criticism.

La Rochefoucauld

In America, in the Rocky Mountains, I saw the only reasonable method of art criticism. There was a sign above the piano in the bar:

"Don't shoot the pianist - he does his best."

Oscar Wilde

Criticism is the mother of positive knowledge.

F. Wolf

The smart one does not criticize the strong.

Confucius

It is more difficult to judge oneself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Throughout my life I have benefited more from my critic friends than from my admirers, especially if the criticism is expressed in polite and friendly language.

M. Gandhi

The critic lulls him with the chloroform of praise, and then operates.

K.Izhikovsky

Only the one who builds the future has the right to be a judge of the past.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Creations of the spirit are eternal and permanent, while criticism is something changing, it comes from the views of its time.

G. Heine

Remember that unfair criticism is often a compliment in disguise.

Dale Carnegie

One can neither escape nor defend oneself from criticism; you need to do it to spite her, and little by little she will get used to it.

Goethe

Absolutely can not stand criticism in my direction. Therefore, if you want to criticize me, it's better to start like this: Oh, this is a masterpiece, and then gradually, slowly, explain my possible errors in the script.

T. Robbins

To have the right to criticize, one must believe in some truth.

M. Gorky

When criticizing, criticize an opinion, not its author.

L. Da Vinci

Criticize yourself, you won't find better critics.

M. Gorky

If you do something wrong and no one reprimands you, it means that they just gave up on you. When you realize that you are doing something badly, but no one tells you anything, this is a bad sign. Maybe you don’t want to hear criticism, but most often we are criticized by those who really love us, who care about us.

M. Remarque

It is a shame to carefully note other people's shortcomings. and pay no attention to yourself.

Democritus

Criticism should be criticism, not shouting!

V.Borisov

In order to treat a disease, it is necessary to find out, discover it, and this is the method that is the most radical and correct.

F. E. Dzerzhinsky

Shouts of disapproval are always louder than applause. If ten people are cheering and one is booing, all you will hear is whistling.

L. Armstrong

Truth loves criticism, it only benefits from it, lies are afraid of criticism, because it loses from it.

D. Diderot

Constructive criticism: when I criticize you. Destructive criticism: when you criticize me.

Not every criticism is a thought, but every thought is a criticism. Thought has no other form of existence.

F. Iskander

You should never cut your beard in the presence of two people. One will say that it is very short, and the other that it is very long.

Criticism of bad sides is subordinated to creativity in our country. We need a more offensive move forward, and we criticize because our creativity is being held up by a huge number of negative aspects.

MI Kalinin

He reacted correctly to criticism: he got rid of those who pointed out shortcomings.

M. Mamchich

Criticism of shortcomings, negative phenomena in our country, as you know, is absolutely free and vital. Of course, criticism must be based on facts.

MI Kalinin

Women criticize men for being insensitive, inattentive, unable to listen, not showing warmth, not loving enough, preferring to have sex in bed rather than making love, and leaving the toilet lid up.

The pleasure of criticizing prevents one from enjoying the beautiful.

J. La Bruyère

Men criticize women for being bad drivers, for not being able to understand the road map and trying to read it upside down, for lack of a sense of direction, for talkativeness and inability to separate the main from the secondary in the story, for something that is rarely asked to have sex, and for the constantly lowered toilet lid.

A. Pease

The party of the revolutionary proletariat is strong enough to openly criticize itself, to call mistake and weakness a mistake and weakness without any ambiguity.

VI Lenin

When I am criticized, I can defend myself, but I am powerless against praise.

Self-criticism is absolutely necessary for any living and vital party. There is nothing more vulgar than self-satisfied optimism.

VI Lenin

— You know, Homer, it's easy to criticize.

— And funny.

The Simpsons

Glasnost is a sword that itself heals the wounds inflicted by it.

VI Lenin

Learn to listen, understand and love the cruel truth about yourself.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Criticism is the duty of a revolutionary.

V. I. Lenin

— Rule one: no criticism!

— Even constructive?

None! We do not lend ourselves to alteration and improvement. Progress ends with potty training.

A talented critic doesn't have to know everything or be able to do it himself, his business is in general observation.

LM Leonov

People say that you are on the wrong path when it is just your path.

Angelina Jolie

Only then is an artist truly praised when, at the sight of his creation, they forget about praises.

G. Lessing

If you want to avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nobody.

Elbert Green Hubbard

One should criticize oneself in the most severe way, one should apply the most severe scale to oneself, otherwise one can fall off the stilts straight into a puddle.

K. Liebknecht

Fools love to be flattered. Smart - when they are criticized.

Frederic Beigbeder

Our weaknesses no longer harm us when we know them.

G. Lichtenberg

It's not enough to say: don't do it. One more thing to add: do it this way.

Maxim Gorky

It doesn't cost much to notice mistakes, to give something better - that's what befits a worthy person.

M. V. Lomonosov

Whatever comes our way - talent or technology - we will always find a way to crap everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

Critics are the sentinels of the great army of literature, posted on all corners of newspapers and reviews, and engaging in battle with each new writer.

Longfellow

If you criticize someone else's, offer your own. Suggesting do it.

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev

Reasonable skepticism is the first quality of a good critic.

D-Lowell

Literary critics are cacti, they have only thorns, and writers are birds, they have only feathers.

The mind, directed towards one negation, becomes poorer, dries up.

I. S. Turgenev

— Do you think I want the whole world to see how you stare at my ass and criticize my wardrobe?

- Would it be better if I stared at your wardrobe and criticized your ass?

Dr. House

Only the one who loves has the right to blame, scold.

IS Turgenev

One can neither escape nor defend oneself from criticism; you need to do it to spite her, and little by little she will get used to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is easy to blaspheme, that is why many do it; it is difficult to praise properly, because only a rare one will dare to do so.

L. Feuerbach

We love to criticize so much that we lose the ability to deeply feel truly beautiful creations.

Jean de La Bruyère

Anyone who strikes in the name of a just cause must be strong not only as a hammer, but also as an anvil.

D. Holland

I don't know why the government is being criticized? It doesn't do anything!

Bob Hope

There are people to whom every truthful word seems harsh, no matter how moderate it may be.

NG Chernyshevsky

Of course, criticism is necessary and obligatory, but on one condition: if it is not fruitless.

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin

Then a person will feel better when you show him what he is.

AP Chekhov

You should never cut your beard in the presence of two people. One will say that it is very short, and the other that it is very long.

Clone

Happy is he who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it for correction.

W. Shakespeare

Praise in public, criticize in private.

Mrinal Kumar Gupta

The rotten cannot be touched.

W. Shakespeare

The less intelligence, the more criticism.

Alexander Minchenkov

If a sharp word left traces, we would all be soiled.

W. Shakespeare

Only those who love have the right to criticize and scold.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Just as a medicine does not achieve its goal if the dose is too high, so is censure and criticism when they go beyond the measure of justice.

A. Schopenhauer

We tend to judge the people around us. We judge how strangers dress; how our neighbors take care of their lawns; and how our friends behave in public. Yes, we constantly give assessments and never think that one day we ourselves will become the object of such assessments.

Desperate Housewives

A wise man is always on the side of those who attack him; he is more interested than they are in discovering his weaknesses.

R. Emerson

If I do something and ninety-nine people out of a hundred say they like it, then I remember only one person who doesn't like it.

Madonna

Without criticism, there is no mutual understanding, and therefore no unification.

F. Engels

To criticize means to explain to the author what I would do if I could.

Karel Capek

Accept that sometimes you are a dove and sometimes you are a statue.

Doyle Branson

“ The right to criticize the one who convinced them of their love for them . ” Gandhi M.

« In order to avoid criticism, one must do nothing, say nothing and be nobody .» Hubbard A.

" Just as a remedy fails when the dose is too high, so do censure and criticism when they go beyond the measure of justice . Schopenhauer A.

“ To be able to work in a team is, first of all, to perceive criticism correctly and not be shy to criticize the mistakes of another .” Zelinsky N.

« A critic must be ready and able at any moment and at the first request to take the place of the one criticized by him and to carry out his work productively and competently; otherwise, criticism turns into an impudent self-sufficient force and becomes a brake on the path of cultural progress . Weller M.

« Criticism, of course, is capable of ruining any thought .» Kapitsa P.

" The best reaction to enemy criticism is to smile and forget ." Nabokov V.

“When someone reproaches you for something , he shows what could be your advantage29. ” Werber B.