Criticism Quotes

"You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody."

"Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism."

"Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously."

"The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable."

"I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it."

"When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more."

"There are always going to be your supporters, and then there are going to be haters. I kind of laugh at them."

"When you are 6-11 and you play hard, you get blamed for a lot of things."

"You can't please everybody, right? Some people are supporters. Some people are against you."

"I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me."

"It feels great to deliver a hit. After all the criticism I got for 'Veer,' I was scared to even step out of my house."

“I think, as long as people have a strong opinion, whether they love or hate us, I think we're doing something right.”

“There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.”

"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses but answer: 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'"

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway."

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

David Brinkley

"Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument."

Ratan Tata

"People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones."

Sachin Tendulkar

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

Christian Nestell Bovee

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do."

Dale Carnegie

"Keep your critic close to you; without soap or water, he cleanses your nature."

Kabir

"I love America more than any other country in this world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

James Baldwin

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

Bertrand Russell

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”