Top 89 Praise Criticism Quotes
#1. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.
Neil Gaiman
#2. A good rule, for this job and many others: give praise publicly and criticism privately. The
Jonathan Kern
#3. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.
Sherwood Anderson
#5. I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand
#6. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#7. Shout praise and whisper criticism.
Don Meyer
#8. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Roland De Vaux
#9. If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.
Mardy Grothe
#10. Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.
Ibn Hazm
#11. I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
#12. The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab
#16. Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#17. Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
Chris Brogan
#20. Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale
Timothy Ferriss
#22. Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.
Tex Winter
#23. For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.
Jean Paul
#25. It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
Conor Oberst
#27. Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."
Steve Martin
#28. Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
#29. Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise
Shiv Khera
#30. Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.
Lee Roberson
#31. Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
Roger Ebert
#32. Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.
Tara Mohr
#33. I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
#36. I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#38. She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.
Carol Anshaw
#39. If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
Bill Johnson
#40. they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.
Carol S. Dweck
#41. The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
#42. All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
Nancy Grace
#43. Truly blessed are those who have their own solitary time and space. They are not easily shaken by the praise or criticism of the world. When they are weakened and worn down by things that are not true, they can always regain strength by entering that time and space of solitude.
Ilchi Lee
#44. Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
Paul Arden
#45. Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck
Eli Wallach
#46. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
#47. Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.
Richard Sherman
#48. Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
Virginia Woolf
#49. Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Ann Patchett
#50. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
Amit Kalantri
#51. In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
Jill Abramson
#52. Changed way of speaking or using a different vocabulary, peculiar statements, extreme reactions to praise, blame and criticism.
Anthony Wilkenson
#53. Praise means nothing to Mama, she doesn't believe it. Only criticism can flush her cheeks and catch her attention. If I were to say something disparaging she would remember it always.
Audrey Niffenegger
#54. Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.
Charles Spurgeon
#55. O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.
Virginia Woolf
#56. To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.
Richard Branson
#57. When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
Judith Martin
#58. The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#59. As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
John Wooden
#60. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
William Arthur Ward
#61. Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.
Truman Capote
#62. Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
Albert Schweitzer
#63. If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?
Howard Behar
#64. Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
Alexander Pope
#65. We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#68. It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
John Wooden
#69. The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
Russell Crowe
#70. I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel
#71. He who disagrees with you could be correct whilst he who cheers you on could be making a mistake. Ponder.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#73. Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.*
Dale Carnegie
#75. Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert.
Kiera Cass
#76. When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
J. Michael Straczynski
#77. The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.
Richard Bode
#79. Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.
Leonard Wolf
#80. You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.
Dennis Ruane
#81. Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Tryon Edwards
#82. There is no praise or criticism that is a reliable truth. Only the experience of writing a book is reliable.
R. Harlan Smith
#83. Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#84. Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo 's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at " capitalism " because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word .
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#85. Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms
#86. Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
Edmund Morris
#88. I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
#89. In her book The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin writes, "Excellence is working toward an attainable goal that benefits everyone, while perfection comes from a place of great need - usually the need to avoid criticism and gain praise and approval from others.
Myquillyn Smith
