You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

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.

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 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!

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

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.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

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

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

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.