Criticism

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, a stranger." - FRANKLIN P. JONES

Franklin P. Jones

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"I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise." - NOEL COWARD

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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." - GEORGE SANTAYANA

George Santayana

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William Arthur Ward

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The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Norman Vincent Peale

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting

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

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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

Jean de la Bruyère

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Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own

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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

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When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical

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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

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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

Winston Churchill

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Don’t find fault, find a remedy

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Albert Einstein

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