Overcoming Criticism Quotes

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

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It's more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important.

If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.

Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

I've learned since 'Drip or Drown' that no one should care what people think. I learned that, after years of comments, it really doesn't matter.

Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.

Wave to the haters like nanananana.

Everybody was telling me to sit my ass down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.