488 Quotes About Critics

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

It is easier to pluck a flower than to nurture it; which is why some would prefer to destroy your talents than nurture them.

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'.

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning.

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

Don’t be afraid of criticism, the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds.