Praise Quotes
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
Taliesin -
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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If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb ibn Munabbih -
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
Catherine the Great -
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 -
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 -
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
Nas -
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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If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
Umar -
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Nagarjuna -
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 -
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips -
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed -
Self praise is no praise at all.
Lord Byron
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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 -
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham -
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus -
The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.
David Deida -
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 -
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
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
Callie Khouri -
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Sam Raimi -
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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