1.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire
Identify who restricts your criticism.
2.
If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.
Barack Obama
If someone is dissimilar from you, that's not something to censure, rather it should be celebrated.
3.
It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
Attila the Hun
It requires more fortitude to stand by your own opinion than to disparage the choices of others.
4.
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to
the one who praises you. Learn from them and do
something about it.
Paul Kagame
Pay attention to criticism and act on it rather than simply accepting compliments.
5.
We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other
Bo Schembechler
'Let's have faith in each other, let's not pass judgement, let's abstain from gossiping, let's offer support.'
6.
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
Mark Twain
If you lack the motivation to alter it, you have no entitlement to censure it.
7.
The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.
Johnny Appleseed
8.
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
George Orwell
10.
Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
Robert Moses
11.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
Deepak Chopra
12.
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
Angela Davis
13.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Ira Glass
15.
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Dale Carnegie
17.
Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.
Jude Bijou
18.
Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.
Paulo Coelho
19.
The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.
James Dobson
22.
Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
Ethel Waters
23.
Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
William Arthur Ward
24.
It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.
George Harrison
25.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Karl Lagerfeld
26.
In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
Bankei Yotaku
27.
I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
James Dickey
28.
If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb ibn Munabbih
29.
Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.
Jim Rohn
30.
To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.
Diogenes
31.
I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.
Aleksandar Hemon
32.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones
34.
Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans.
Megyn Kelly
35.
If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.
Ozzy Osbourne
36.
I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
Herbie Hancock
37.
Now people are criticizing Europe, the European Commission, Juncker and the whole lot because the distribution of refugees didn't succeed immediately. But you also have to recognize that close to 20,000 refugees have already been redistributed. There are only a few member states that do not want to take part.
Jean-Claude Juncker
38.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
Herman Melville
39.
Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.
Texas Bix Bender
40.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
Johannes Brahms
41.
By criticizing,
we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.
Dale Carnegie
42.
Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Steve Jobs
43.
You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
Mark Rippetoe
44.
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.
Miles Kington
46.
We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.
Simon Sinek
47.
I had the evidence that a crash did happen... I ask [you] this, were you there with me? Did you have the clearances? They can't answer these questions, they simply criticize with no evidence.
Philip J. Corso
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As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
Loretta Young