Quotes About Compliments And Criticism

#1. Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Billy Corgan

#2. Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each..

Charles Jaffe

#3. I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God.

Patience Johnson

#4. 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

#5. I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Paul Scholes

#6. God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Martin Luther

#7. Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

Paul Scholes

#9. I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

Timothy F. Cahill

#10. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

#11. Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

#12. Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how crucial our choices are.

Jennifer Senior

#13. You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#14. Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#15. If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism.

Cornelius Lindsey

#16. Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism
unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

William Faulkner

#17. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

Indro Montanelli

#18. I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#19. After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton