Critics Quotes

What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

~ Amit Kalantri

I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance — namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life.

~ Sarah Maclean

Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

~ Solange Nicole

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

~ Leonard Bernstein

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

~ Gene Fowler

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

~ Saadi

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

~ Mark Twain

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

~ Edmund Wilson

Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you how did you do it?” Keep it up!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

~ Criss Jami

You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

~ Gertrude Atherton

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect, the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.

~ Amit Kalantri

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

~ Amit Kalantri

You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to make it happen!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't fall flat to deception, thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge, you are unstoppable!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours of their discouragements. God whispers; “I am with you”!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may wish. Some will only let you know through their tests of criticism!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Yes! If you really love your beautiful garden of dreams, you will never allow any hungry beast to have its way in. Keep dream killers away!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is a lie'.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson