Quotes on Criticism

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.Mark Twain

• friends
• criticism
• encouragement
• associates

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones

• criticism

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• words
• criticism
• children

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.Sidney Greenberg

• adversity
• criticism
• success

If you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.Edgar Watson Howe

• adversity
• criticism

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.Earl Warren

• criticism

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.David Zucker

• persistence
• criticism

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.Abraham Lincoln

• criticism

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.Denis Waitley

• criticism