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I was just pondering over the words above

And i think it makes lots of sense,
Dont you think that , Sometimes, to succeed in life you need ENEMIES.... Yes!!!
To succeed in life apply this rule

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You need people who will mock you, so that you can run to God.

You need people who will try to intimidate you, so that you can be courageous.

You need people who will say "NO" so that you can learn how to be independent...I mean how to do it yourself.

You need people who will disappoint you so that you can put all your trust in God alone.

You need people who will work towards you loosing that job, so that you can start your own big business.

You need people who will sell your 'Joseph' so that 'you' can get to Egypt and be a Prime Minister in a strange land of captivity.

You need a cruel landlord, so that you won't be too comfortable in someone else's house, then you can build your own house on time.

But sometimes, when we are disappointed, we feel very bad and we tend to remain on that spot. Not knowing that the end-point of disappointment is the beginning of your accomplishments.

Understand this, "that every disappointment you once had came with a blessing!" However, it is not everyone that partakes in this blessing that I'm talking about.

You cannot see a new OPEN door while you are still putting all your attention, time and energy in trying to force the closed one to open.

And again I say, "No disappointment can ever come without an attached blessing!"

So, when the disappointment come, thank God for it and tell "HIM" to open your eyes to see the new blessing that HE has for you!

Disappointment is PHASE 1 while accomplishment is PHASE 2. I doubt if one can jump the protocols easily

That is why it is called BREAKTHROUGH Something must BREAK so that you can go THROUGH!

I still say that we need enemies to make it

Sometimes you need enemies! to succeed in life. Enemies can give you more in a day than a friend in years.
Sometimes you need people who will mock you, so that you can run to God.
Sometimes you need people who will intimidate you, so that you can be courageous.
Sometimes you need people who will say "NO" so that you can learn how to do it yourself.
Sometimes you need people who will disappoint you so that you can learn to put all your trust in God alone.
Sometimes you need people who will work towards you loosing that job, so that you can start your own big company.
Sometimes you need to be rejected to move on to better .
Sometimes you need that cruel landlord, so that you won't be too comfortable in someone else's house.
But sometimes, when we are challenged, we feel very bad and tend to remain in that same spot. Your attitude determines your altitude.
The end-point of disappointment is the start point of accomplishments. Something has to die for a new life to begin.
Understand this, "with every challenge you face comes a blessing!"

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65 Great Quotes That Will Help You Handle Criticism

It's never fun to be on the receiving end of criticism, but these thoughts can help you learn to deal with it more effectively.
Nobody likes being criticized. But how you handle it makes all the difference. If you lock up and become defensive, you're likely to waste a lot of time feeling bad--and repeating the same behavior that was a problem to begin with.

But if you can learn to take it in stride, with some genuine reflection on how you can use it as a basis for improvement, you can come to realize that criticism can actually be a gift.

Here are some quotes to help you think about criticism: giving it, receiving it, and understanding it.

1. "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." --Zig Ziglar
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2. "When criticized, consider the source." --Unknown

3. "If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion." --Calvin Coolidge

4. "The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment." --Elbert Hubbard

5. "We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him." --Michel de Montaigne

6. "When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves." --Publius Syrus

7. "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." --Oscar Wilde

8. "He who throws dirt always loses ground." --Unknown

9. "You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." --Lou Holtz

10. "The dread of criticism is the death of genius." --William Gilmore Simms

11. "He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help." --Abraham Lincoln

12. "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." --Norman Vincent Peale

13. "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." --John Wooden

14. "Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it." --Seth Godin

15. "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." --Norman Vincent Peale

16. "Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." --attributed to Aristotle

17. "A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism." --Will Self

18. "It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is very easy; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome." --Plutarch

19. "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them." --Plato

20. "The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves." --Albert Einstein

21. "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

22. "If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others." --François de La Rochefoucauld

23. "Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes." --Elvis Presley

24. "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." --Wendell Phillips

25. "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." --William Lonsdale Watkinson

26. "Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought." --Margaret Chase Smith

27. "If we are bold enough to point out problems, we must be brave enough to try to solve them." --Robert Alan Silverstein

28. "If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it." --Mark Twain

29. "One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism." --Carl Sagan

30. "Blame is safer than praise." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. "Don't let compliments get to your head and don't let criticism get to your heart." -- Lysa TerKeurst

32. "Criticism is a privilege that you earn--it shouldn't be your opening move in an interaction." --Malcolm Gladwell

33. "Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism are all too frequently those who...ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism--the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought." --Margaret Chase Smith

34. "Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's." --E. M. Forster

35. "Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values."
    --Marshall Rosenberg

36. "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

37. "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." --Frank A. Clark

38. "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." --Napoleon Hill

39. "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life." --Winston Churchill

40. "If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them." --Mohandas K. Gandhi
    

41. "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." --Socrates

42. "One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself." --Mark Twain

43. "My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism." --Victoria Woodhull

44. "What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism." --Octavio Paz

45. "Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing." --Joyce Carol Oates

46. "If someone criticizes you, give them a compliment." --Debasish Mridha

47. "Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism." --Anonymous

48. "Appreciate the constructive; ignore the destructive." --John Douglas

49. "I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free." --Georgia O'Keeffe

50. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." --Benjamin Disraeli

51. "It is usually best to be generous with praise and cautious with criticism." --Anonymous

52. "Don't criticize what you can't understand." --Bob Dylan
    
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53. "Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn--and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." --Dale Carnegie

54. "But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism." --Eric Wright

55. "Criticism is information that will help you grow." --Hendrie Weisinger

56. "Concern over criticism clogs creativity." --Duane Alan Hahn

57. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." --Eleanor Roosevelt

58. "Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them." --Anonymous
    
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59. "Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting." --Emmit Fox

60. "A critic is a legless man who teaches running." --Channing Pollock

61. "The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things." --Jean De La Bruyere

62. "A cynic is prematurely disappointed with the future." --Anonymous

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

64. "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." --Sam Rayburn

65. "There is no defense against criticism except obscurity." --Joseph Addison
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