Richard Branson Quotes

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I'm not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn't affect my life. I think that attitude helps to strengthen my character.

When you feel yourself being critical, whether it is of yourself or another person, stop yourself. Look for positive aspects to admire.