CRITICISM by Others 受人批評

Never be afraid to test yourself by your critic's words.

Martin Luther

永遠不要害怕，用批評者的話來檢驗自己。

If men speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.

Plato

若有人說你壞話，就活得讓人無法相信他們。

It is just as much a Christian's duty to avoid taking offence as it is to avoid offence.

John Blanchard

對基督徒來說，不輕易被冒犯，與不去冒犯別人，同樣是本分。

I have rather that true and faithful teachers should rebuke and condemn me, and reprove my ways, than that hypocrites should flatter me and applaud me as a saint.

Martin Luther

寧可有忠於教職的老師非難、責罵我，指責我的行徑，好過假冒為善者討好我，還把我捧得像個甚麼聖人似的。

Slander has a marvelous way of driving us into the arms of our heavenly Father.

Stuart Olyott

毀謗可是一個將我們帶到天父上帝慈愛雙手的奇妙方法。

When people kick us, it is sometimes a sign that we are in front of them.

Percy Ray

當人踢我們，有時候只是表明我們走在他們前面。

If you were not strangers here the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

Samuel Rutherford

如果你不是陌生人，那這世界的看門狗就不會大聲對你吠叫。

To be irritated by criticism is to acknowledge it was deserved.

Tacitus

如果被他人的批評激怒，這表示那樣的批評是你應得的。

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

任何傻瓜都會批評、抱怨和譴責——大多數傻瓜確實如此。但要做到理解和寬恕，卻需要品格和自制力。

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

批評也許令人不快，但卻是必要的。它發揮的功能就像人體的疼痛一樣，提醒人們注意不健康的事物狀態。

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emersond

讓我永遠不要陷入這種庸俗的錯誤：每當有人反對我，就以為自己在被迫害。

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

Norman Vincent Peale

我們大多數人的問題是：寧願被讚美毀滅，也不願被批評拯救。

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

有幫助之心的人，才有批評的權利。

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln

不要批評他們；他們不過是在類似情況下我們也會成為的樣子。

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

做你內心認為正確的事——因為無論如何你都會被批評。做也挨罵，不做也挨罵。

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.

Mark Twain

不應該在自己站不穩的地方批評別人。

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

任何傻瓜都能批評、譴責和抱怨，而且大多數傻瓜都這樣做。

我們需要非常強健的耳朵才能聽到別人坦率地評判我們，因為很少有人能忍受坦率的批評而不被刺痛，所以那些敢於批評我們的人是在施行一種非凡的友誼之舉。

Michel de Montaigne

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar

不要被批評分散注意力。記住，有些人唯一能嚐到的成功滋味，就是咬你一口的時候。

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

偉大的最終證明，在於能夠忍受批評而不懷怨恨。

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Fulton J. Sheen

批評別人因此是一種間接的自我讚美。我們以為通過告訴鄰居他的畫都掛歪了，就能讓自己牆上的畫掛正。

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

批評比校正要容易得多。

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

在人類對人類的所有荒謬假設中，沒有什麼比那些衣食無憂的人對窮人習慣的批評更過分的了。

If you have no critics, you will likely have no success.

Malcolm S. Forbes

如果沒有批評你的人，你就不太可能成功。

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

如果你論斷他人，你就沒有時間愛他們了。

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

John Wooden

批評是一種間接的自我吹噓。

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

兒童更需要的是榜樣，而不是批評。

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Georgia O'Keeffe

我已經為自己做了決定，讓奉承和批評都流入同一個下水道，於是我相當自由。

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Tina Fey

不要浪費精力去改變別人的看法……做你自己的事，不要在乎他們是否喜歡。