You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.