How do you handle criticism?

Andy Andrews points out in his Seven Decisions how to handle criticism.
How criticism can cause people not to perform or carry on, We roll up in a fetal position suck our thumb and sulk for hours, even days?
Does criticism hurt? You bet it does.
Does it keep you from succeeding? Absolutely.
Do you freeze from doing anything? Yes we do.

He describes the process Mother Teresa went through to be "Sainted":

A Tribunal made up of Bishops from the Catholic Church was set up to review Mother Teresa. Testimony from many people was made to a gallery of people over days and weeks. Why we should make Mother Teresa a Saint?

They testified on all the good things Mother Teresa did.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta helped thousands of the poorest of the poor of India. In fact, I cannot think of any harm she has done at all. Some anti-religious, anti-Christian, and anti-Catholic people are tried to make a big deal about Mother Teresa's struggle with her own spirituality. Mother Teresa was not perfect and did not have it easy. She was a real human being with real thoughts and feelings. Just like the rest of us, sometimes she felt close to God and, at times, felt abandoned by God. She wrote in one of her letters, "I am told God lives in me -- and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul." Her letters show a real human struggle with her own spirituality and shows her humanity. Even Jesus cried out on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" Sometimes it seems to be the people with the greatest souls have the greatest doubts.

The a second group came and testified in Why she should not become a saint.
They said they heard her cuss one time and her intent was not really to help people,, etc. etc.
Most criticisms lobbied against her was that her health care facilities were inadequate and that she and her missionaries of charity were "ignorant" in regards to medical treatment and proper health care.
Let's get real! Mother Teresa did something. She took ACTION.
So my conclusion is if they are bad mouthing Mother Teresa you and I don't have a chance anyway!
so we might as well ignore it!

As Eleanor Roosevelt says:

“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.”

And that is the conclusion I draw, Ignore it! People are going to find fault in any thing you do! But, the difference is your doing something!

May God Bless.

Michael Mack, An American


Quotes on Criticism:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
Benjamin Franklin

“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”
Unknown

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
Charles Schwab

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing”
Aristotle