Praise Quotes
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
Nas
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
Plato
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
Ed Weeks
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
Nargis Fakhri
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
Baha'u'llah
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Nagarjuna
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid
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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
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
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Self praise is no praise at all.
Lord Byron
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If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
Umar
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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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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I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
Catherine the Great
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Sam Raimi
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
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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
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The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
Ken Bruen
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Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.
Richard Sherman
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
William Shakespeare
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
Randy Savage