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

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

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.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.