(1692 quotes found)
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment”
Elbert Hubbard
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded”
Tyne Daly
“The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things”
Jean de la Bruyere
“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
John Wooden
“In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving”
William Arthur Ward
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Noel Coward
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka
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