Quotes About Being Criticized

#1. The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.

Eric Schlosser

#2. Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," which was condemned as a "bourgeois habit," and had to see less and less of her own mother.

Jung Chang

#3. You will never be admired without being criticized first.

Grant Cardone

#4. Here inside, everyone can say what they like, do what they want, without being criticized. After all, they're in a mental hospital.

Paulo Coelho

#5. [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

Queen Elizabeth II

#6. There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

Daniel Craig

#7. If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

Mila Kunis

#8. Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Criss Jami

#9. One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

Amit Abraham

#10. People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.

Timothy Carey

#11. I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

Kendall Jenner

#12. He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."

Harry S. Truman

#13. Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.

Brenda Russell

#14. People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Richard Dawkins

#15. We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.

Sheryl Sandberg

#16. I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

Tom Vilsack

#17. You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

Raf Simons

#18. Those who are critical don't like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.

Suzy Kassem

#19. When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

Val Kilmer

#20. I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Gil Scott-Heron

#21. Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

Caroline Myss

#22. We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

Ken Starr

#23. I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

John Diefenbaker

#24. Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

Sarah Drew

#25. Approval isn't necessary. It's nice when you get it, but it's not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I'd have listened to approval, I'd never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there's validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.

Jared Leto

#26. The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Paul Theroux

#27. It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

Ed Koch

#28. You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

Sanford Meisner

#29. There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

John Stuart Mill

#30. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Christina Aguilera

#31. Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

Alex Haley

#32. I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

John Catsimatidis

#33. First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.

Karen DeCrow

#34. I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.

Terraine Francois

#35. I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation.

Lindsey Graham

#36. If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

Tullian Tchividjian

#37. No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Fear of criticism is a powerful deterrent because the criticism doesn't actually have to occur for the fear to set in. Watch a few people get criticized for being innovate, and it's pretty easy to convince yourself that the very same thing will happen to you if you're not careful.

Seth Godin

#39. I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

Christina Aguilera

#40. Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.

Kristen Stewart

#41. I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Shania Twain

#42. Wealthy people are often criticized for being obsessed with money, but the truth is, it's the poor, working, and middle class that spend the most time thinking about it.

Steve Siebold

#43. The risk of being known is also the decision to be criticized by some.

Donald Miller