Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
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.
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.
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