Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.
Let those who are fond of blaming and finding fault while they sit safely at home ask, ‘Why did you not do thus and so?’
- Topic: Criticism, Leadership
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To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
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.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
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.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
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.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.
Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.