Longevity

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers


Critic's diatribes rarely become classics.

Pulling Up

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington


Putting down is the same as pushing down.

Finger Pointing

When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you. - Anonymous

..... Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Not Malice

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown


Few are truly malicious.

Brush It Off

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it. - Randy K. Milholland


Like he says, remember it doesn't have anything to do with you - brush it off.

Getting Behind

I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to the point where they can't kick it. - Michael J. Fox


All of us are better off left alone.

Censure

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. - Tryon Edwards


True of censure of others but not true of censure of ideas.

Critiques

When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. - Richard Carlson


Especially if the criticism is "behind the back."

River of Tears

When someone hurts you; cry a river; build a bridge; and get over it! - Richard Middleton 


The sooner the better.

Questioned Intelligence

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. - Henry B. Adams


You'll never convince someone of your perspective or sell them your product if you make them think they are stupid.

Cheap Talk

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. - Anonymous


Most of that talk is people judging that and those which they don't know.

Establish a Reputation

There are two ways of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. - Charles Caleb Colton


......whether you want it to or not.


(Other posts on Respect)

Fool-ish

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


And most that criticize, condemn and complain are fools.


(Other posts on Criticism)

Hurling Insults

A gentleman of Miss Manners's acquaintance was once subjected to a barrage of unwarranted insults. Outraged on his behalf, she asked why he did not trouble to defend himself. His reply (and please forgive the inelegance for the sake of vividness) was: "If someone is throwing up on you, you get out of the way. You do not stay around to examine what is coming up." There is nothing you can say to people who, whatever they may think, see fit to hurl crude insults at you. - Miss Manners

One can fight fire with fire and risk getting burned or you can deprive the fire of air.

(Other posts on Manners)

Mind Your Own Improvement

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.


And remember: Criticizing others in no way improves your status.


(Other posts on Criticism)

Criticism vs. Praise

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Don't let others use this against you.


(Other posts on Criticism)

Ill Tongues

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. - Thomas Fuller   

It takes two to fight.

(Other posts on Criticism) 

Insults

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. - Frederick Douglass 


If you throw out an insult you are not a gentleman.


(Other posts on Manners) 

Finding Blame

The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half


Especially when the searcher is to blame.


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Rejected Gifts

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. - Steve Pavlina 


It takes two to Tango.


(Other posts on Ridicule)