The best critique quotes and sayings from renowned authors are provided here for your reading pleasure. We hope that these criticism quotes will assist you in any way in learning more about criticism, how it impacts other people’s lives, and how to deal with it. Criticism is the practise of people making judgments about the virtues and flaws of someone or something, and it is referred to as an evaluative or corrective exercise that occurs in any aspect of human life. You can tell your friends, family, and other people you care about about these motivational criticism quotes.
“Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.”
– Emmet Fox
“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
– Judith Martin
“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
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
– Dale Carnegie
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
– Jean de La Bruyère
“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
– Aristotle
“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
– John Wooden
“The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“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
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
– Elvis Presley
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”
– Frank A. Clark
“People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”
– Gary Chapman
“Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.”
– Unknown
“Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.”
– Unknown
“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
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.” – Calvin Coolidge
“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
“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
“One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself”
– Mark Twain
“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
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
– Daisaku Ikeda
“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
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“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
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.” – Andy Warhol
“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.” – Shannon L. Alder
“One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.” – Chris Ware
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.” – Will Self