What They Said

“The world is not always friendly to us. It is not disposed always to pat us on the back, or to pet and praise us. One of the first things a young man learns, when he pushes out from his own home, where everybody dotes on him—is that he must submit to criticism and opposition. Not all he does receives commendation. But this very condition is healthful. Our growth is much more wholesome in such an atmosphere, than where we have only adulation and praise.”

J.R. Miller

(Getting Help From Criticism)

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”

G.K. Chesterton