The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

— Norman Vincent Peale

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good

— Charles Caleb Colton

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

— Demosthenes

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.…

— Tryon Edwards

He descants most on the failings of others who is least sensible of his own.

— Unknown

If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures m…

— Epictetus