Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg
If you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.
Edgar Watson Howe
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
Richard Rybolt
The man who is worthy of being "a leader of men" will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat - that is the final proof of power.
William Boetcker
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Cardinal Newman
Some criticism will be honest, some won't. Some praise you will deserve, some you won't. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
Since the beginning of recorded history, no one has erected a statue to a critic.
Zig Ziglar
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
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charlie Brower
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most of us would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
I will laud my enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Og Mandino
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal
The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing.
Lou Holtz
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.
Napoleon Hill
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Napoleon Hill
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Napoleon Hill
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Napoleon Hill
Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others.
Leonardo da Vinci
A winner admires and respects other winners. A loser resents winners and tries to find something negative to say about them.
Steve Spurrier
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.
Albert Einstein
People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
Timothy Ferriss
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People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
Marcus Aurelius
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If an action or utterance is appropriate, then it's appropriate for you. Don't be put off by other people's comments and criticism. If it's right to say or do it, then it's the right thing for you to do or say.
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Sir Winston Churchill
If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.
Scott Boras
One of the things you should consider when you hear discouragement is whether the discouragers have accomplished that which they are trying to discourage you from trying.
John T. Reed
Most high achievement requires you to subject yourself to and survive rejection.
John T. Reed
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
Seth Godin
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
Steven Pressfield
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Laughing at an ignorant person for asking questions is like laughing at a fat person for being at the gym.
Anonymous
You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.
Derek Sivers
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No matter which goal you choose, there will be lots of people telling you you're wrong. Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.
Derek Sivers
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