It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.