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Quotes about Criticism

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
- Bill Johnson
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
- St. Basil
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
- Erica Jong
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
- GK Chesterton
Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.
- Napoleon Hill
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
- Richard Wurmbrand
God will do that for you. Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.
- Max Lucado
Your Jericho is your fear. Your Jericho is your anger, bitterness, or prejudice. Your insecurity about the future. Your guilt about the past. Your negativity, anxiety, and proclivity to criticize, overanalyze, or compartmentalize. Your Jericho is any attitude or mind-set that keeps you from joy, peace, or rest.
- Max Lucado
Words are powerful. If you've been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement.
- Max Lucado
The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.
- Beth Moore
Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.
- Beth Moore
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
- Steven Pressfield