Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced, balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.