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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the
antagonist so much as the rival read more
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the
antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
