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"Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?"	Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
"Praise in public; criticize in private."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?'"	Micheál MacLiammóir
"Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by."	André Maurois
"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."	Phyllis McGinley
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."	Lord Melbourne
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."	Henry Louis Mencken
"It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close."	Joe Moore
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."	Siddha Nagarjuna
"We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause."	Jose Narosky
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."	Benjamin Disraeli
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."	Benjamin Disraeli
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."	W. Somerset Maugham
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."	W. Somerset Maugham
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