Best Criticism Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel a lot more personal criticism when somebody tells you that you don't have a good voice.”

“I'm fine with criticism against me.”

“I have dealt with criticism from my first drama, and I think that is a part of our profession. It brings me down but definitely pushes me to do better.”

“For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the criticism. All you can do is put your work out there and move on; you just never know what will come.”

“Writers like me, whose criticism is offered respectfully, seem to be considered more dangerous than the more strident Saudi opposition based in London.”

“We need to know how to handle the criticism.”

“I am used to a lot of criticism.”

“I've never had a problem with criticism. Whether films or television, I've lived with it and emerged stronger.”

“Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.”

“I have to take criticisms, and I will continue to take them for what I think is best for the team.”

“I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.”

“The criticism that Arsene gets is just a joke.”

“Criticism is important for an actress, and it depends on how you take it. I take it positively and try to learn from it.”

“In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.”

“If you are at Bayern and lose to Dortmund, it is common that the media voices criticism.”

“Robert Lewandowski has had some criticism, but he knows how to find the net.”

“If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.”

“I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism.”

“Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.”

“For all the criticism I've been showered with - people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber - frankly, the only criticism I have of Manmohan Singh is that he weakened the office of the prime minister, and he brought down the dignity of the office.”

“I am not worried about criticism. In fact, it helps one perform better.”

“I take criticism positively, and I keep trying to develop as an actor.”

“Criticism is frightening.”

“The main criticism people have of me is, 'Why are you trying so hard? This guy's exhausting.' Yeah, I am! That's my way of trying to get love.”

“Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.”

“It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport.”

“Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.”

“Personally, I can handle criticism, especially when it is deserved, and it's because my dad never, ever said 'Well done' to me. He did it on purpose so that I kept my feet on the ground.”

“I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.”

“Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.”

“I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.”

“We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!”

“I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.”

“As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.”

“It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.”

“I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.”

“In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.”

“Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece of music is doing to them internally.”

“Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.”

“I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.”

“I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.”

“For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'”

“Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.”

“I'm getting criticism on social media, saying, 'Ah, you ducked Shane Mosley.' I've never ducked anyone in my life. They need to look into it a bit more.”

“Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.”

“Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.”

“One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'”

“Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.”

“Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.”

“Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even in the gay world.”

“P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society. They are very responsible companies, despite the challenges that they sometimes deal with, all the criticism they get.”

“Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.”

“Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.”

“The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.”

“Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.”

“In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'”

“There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.”

“Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.”

“In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.”

“The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.”

“I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist, but I just view that as having fun.”

“It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.”

“For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.”

“It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.”

“It is a matter of great indifference to me what criticism is printed in the papers and the magazines. I am simply working out my own ideas in my own way.”

“I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.”

“I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe.”

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

“Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.”

“The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.”

“It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.”

“It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.”

“I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.”

“No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.”

“The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.”

“If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.”

“If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!”

“Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.”

“I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'”

“There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.”

“The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.”

“When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.”

“When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.”

“Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.”

“It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.”

“It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.”

“Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.”

“Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.”

“As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.”

“I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.”

“Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.”

“I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.”

“There are two sides always - when something works, it is hailed, but when something doesn't, it is all criticism.”

“If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.”

“I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.”

“I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.”

“Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.”

“In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.”

“A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.”

“I believe in criticism.”