Criticism and Critics

 

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Any fool can criticize, condemn,

and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

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 (1884 - 1962)

Honest criticism is hard to take,

particularly from a relative, a friend,

an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

Pay no attention to what the critics say...
Remember, a statue has never been set up
in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself;

he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

 

 

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)