Praise Quotes
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu -
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
Francis Chan
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
Saint Ignatius -
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot -
Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.
Jack Canfield -
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis Bacon
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox -
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Ellie Goulding -
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
Orlando Aloysius Battista -
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
Dale Carnegie -
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt
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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
John Harington -
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Abraham Lincoln -
Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
Lao Tzu -
According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty criticism." Perhaps in human relationships both of these meanings could apply. Almost all men will respond to sincere praise and rebel at harsh and cutting criticisms.
Marvin J. Ashton -
Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got, And fame and name and great men's praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
H. C. Bunner -
If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Blaise Pascal -
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
Euripides -
The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
Lorenzo Snow -
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles