Dale Carnegie Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

It doesn't 'hurt' me, hearing criticism from ex-players. It probably disappoints me a little bit more.

There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.