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There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.

The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Age withers only the outside.

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

People who know the least always argue the most.

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.

A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

Friendship is love with understanding.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

The guilty catch themselves.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"

It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

If marriage is your object,You'd better start loving your subject.

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.

Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

If the world were so organized that everything has to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone's self-interest would have to be served.

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

To save time is to lengthen life.

Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.