Quotes About Destructive Criticism

#1. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#2. Stressed by any other name is fear.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

Tony Abbott

#4. But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. The most destructive criticism is indifference.

E.W. Howe

#6. People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

Tim Ferriss

#7. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

Bryant McGill

#8. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Bruce Lee

#11. Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Blaise Pascal

#13. Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Kenneth W. Estes

#14. Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#16. It's true: I married my college sweetheart. We were so lucky to find each other at such a young age.

Julie Ann Emery

#17. Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It's just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

Janet Burroway