Quotes about Criticism
Just do it better yourself and don't waste any time criticizing others or the past! This, in fact, purifies your own commitment and motivation.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
for Action and Contemplation puts it this way: "The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better." I
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does not believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we "believers" must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self-serving when you're surrendered.
— Rick Warren
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
— Rick Warren
When you don't know whom you're trying to please, you cave in to three things: criticism (because you are concerned about what others will think of you), competition (because you worry about whether somebody else is getting ahead of you), and conflict (because you're threatened when anyone disagrees with you).
— Rick Warren
You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
— Rick Warren
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
— Oswald Chambers
Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.
— David Ogilvy
Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
— Gordon Hinckley
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
— Alistair Begg
I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.
— Dick Cheney