Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to
criticize or attack the government of my own country.
I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Winston Churchill
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward
Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I made no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
- Anais Nin
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -
a practice which is still continued.
- Helen Rowland
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,
more drunkards than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
- The Buddha
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Rules are mostly made to be broken
and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
- Douglas MacArthur
The rich are not born skeptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Paul Getty
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Everything is made of light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth,
that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
It is difficult for the common good to prevail
against the intense concentration
of those who have a special interest,
especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous
Travelers, there is no path.
Paths are made by walking.
- Antonio Machado
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
I can see, and that is why I can be happy,
in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
I take every opportunity to articulate to others
the ways that they have blessed and influenced me.
I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity
to thank teachers who have influenced me.
I encourage everyone to seize opportunities
to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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