Browsing Quotes With Tag: criticism (27)
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Anyone can say, “I don’t like it.” I want to hear you say, “here’s how we can make it better.”
Speaker: Walt DisneySource: How to Be Like WaltPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The objective of those who give criticism is to change the one being criticized…but instead of changing them, it kills them.
Speaker: (paraphrased) Dr. John L. LundSource: Education WeekPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A critic is someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoots the wounded.
Speaker: UnknownSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Speaker: J.S. KnoxPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ignore an insult is the true test of courage.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who gossips to you will also gossip about you.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not everybody is going to like you. In fact, some people are going to hate and detest you. And it’s the very things that some like most about you that others will find the most repulsive. This is the human condition. You can’t please everybody. Don’t even try.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Speaker: Gene FowlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One way you can measure your value in the Kingdom of God is to ask, ‘How well am I doing in helping others reach their potential? Do I support others in the church, or do I criticize them?
If you are criticizing others, you are weakening the church. If you are building others, you are building the kingdom of God.Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must never allow our intellect to take priority over our spirit. Our intellect can feed our spirit and our spirit can feed our intellect, but if we allow our intellect to take precedence over our spirit, we will stumble, find fault, and may even lose our testimonies.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can live together in the God-given pattern of marriage in accomplishing that of which we are capable if we will exercise discipline of self and refrain from trying to discipline our companion.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Satan will always work on the saints of God to undermine their faith in priesthood keys. One way he does it is to point out the humanity of those who hold them. He can in that way weaken our testimony and so cut us loose from the line of keys by which the Lord ties to Him and can take us and our families home to Him and to our Heavenly Father.
…If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it.Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the role of responsibility… ‘Youth need fewer critics and more models [to follow].’ One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or girl.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some people operate in a spirit of contention – clever with words from much practice, but not focused on correcting their own imperfections. They focus on the imperfections of others. The Spirit of the Lord withdraws from them with their fault-finding and contentions. Unless they change, they rarely endure to the end but fall away in time.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you had an inaccurate map of a city, you would be both lost and frustrated. If someone counseled you to try harder and you doubled your speed, you would merely be lost twice as fast. If the person sensed how discouraged you were and counseled you to think positively rather than negatively, you would still be lost but perhaps you wouldn’t care about it as much.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am going to meet people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, and ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn’t imagine a world without such people.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!