Lao Tzu Quotes

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

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• I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Praise
  • Salt

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Over

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Girl
  • Teach
  • Praise

• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Respect
  • Literature

• If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

  

  Umar
  • God
  • Praise
  • Praying

• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Praise

• Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Powerful
  • inspirational

• Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Adversity
  • Praise
  • Divert

• We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Virtues

• Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Improvement
  • Praise
  • Hearty

• Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.

  

  David Deida
  • Power
  • Food
  • Health

• The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Criticism
  • Praise
  • Deceived

• You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hurt

• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Trouble
  • Criticism
  • Praise

• I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Believe
  • Possible
  • Praise

• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Hours
  • Ends

• Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • World
  • Mother
  • Doubt

• When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Ignorant

• Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

  

  Lao Tzu
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