Quotes about Criticism

Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

It is the depravity of institutions and movements that given in the beginning to express life, they often end in throttling that very life. Therefore, they need constant review, perpetual criticism and continuous bringing back to the original purposes and spirit.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.