“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.”
“Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.”
“Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.”
“Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.”
“It is said that those who are critical feel the most self-hate. It follows then that those who practice giving praise and appreciation feel good about themselves.”
“Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.”