Quotes on Criticism

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks”

 - Winston Churchill

“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”
― Channing Pollock

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

“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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 S. Churchill

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

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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

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

“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.”
― Rodolfo Costa

 “Keep yourself so busy with your own refinement that you have little time, energy, or need to criticize others.”
― Anonymous