Praise Quotes
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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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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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False praise is worse than no praise.
Felix Dennis
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
Nas
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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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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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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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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
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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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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
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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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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Sam Raimi
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Nagarjuna
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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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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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I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
Catherine the Great
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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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Self praise is no praise at all.
Lord Byron
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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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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
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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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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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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