Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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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

• 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 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

• That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

  

  Plato
  • Praise
  • Faithful
  • Witness

• The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dead
  • Praise
  • Reverence

• Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Criticism

• 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
  • Embarrassed
  • Assistance

• The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sing
  • Praise
  • Great Man

• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

  

  William Law
  • Heart
  • Blessing
  • Praise

• When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • People
  • School
  • Say

• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Confidence
  • Influence
  • Virtue

• Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
  • Praise
  • Advise
  • Attach