Praise Quotes
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
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Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
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Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.
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When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.
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Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.
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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.
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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
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Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
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Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
