Quotes on Criticism

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.Blaise Pascal

• criticism
• excellence

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing.Lou Holtz

• criticism

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.Napoleon Hill

• self esteem
• criticism
• associates

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.Napoleon Hill

• friends
• criticism
• family
• associates

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.Napoleon Hill

• criticism
• risk
• chance

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.Napoleon Hill

• fear
• criticism

Reprove a friend in secret, but praise him before others.Leonardo da Vinci

• criticism
• praise

A winner admires and respects other winners. A loser resents winners and tries to find something negative to say about them.Steve Spurrier

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.Albert Einstein

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