Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you've got a mile-long head start. ... And you have their shoes.

Reverend Henry Ward Beecher entered Plymouth Church one Sunday and found several letters awaiting him. He opened one and found it contained the single word, "Fool." Quietly and with becoming seriousness he shared the letter with the congregation and announced: "I have known many an instance of a person writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of someone signing his name and forgetting to write the letter."

"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

An efficiency expert concluded a lecture with a note of caution: "You don't want to try these techniques at home." "Why not?" asked someone from the back of the audience. "I watched my wife's routine at breakfast for years," the expert explained. "She made lots of trips to the refrigerator, stove, table, and cabinets, often carrying just a single item at a time. 'Honey,' I suggested, 'Why don't you try carrying several things at once?'" The person in the audience asked, "Did it save time?" The expert replied, "Actually, yes. It used to take her 20 minutes to get breakfast ready. Now I do it in seven."

That's like criticizing someone for owning and umbrella and having a shower.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

Right now I’m having so much trouble with D.L. Moody, that I don’t have time to criticize my friends.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Let him be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault, and that one fault will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times. -- Martin Luther

Every man needs one blind eye and one deaf ear so when people applaud, he will hear only half of it, and when people salute, you’ll only see a part of it. -- C. H. Spurgeon Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism. -- C. H. Spurgeon

Facts are friendly. -- J. Irwin Miller, retired chairman, Cummins Engine Co.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Criticize by creating.