Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.