Lao Tzu Quotes
Those who praise themselves do not prevail.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
Dale Carnegie
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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
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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
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
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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
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.
Adolf Hitler
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.
Vita Sackville-West
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Those who praise themselves do not prevail.
Lao Tzu
