Praise Quotes
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The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.
David Bennun
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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
Isaac Watts
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Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
John Calvin
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!
Alex Faickney Osborn
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston
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“Though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise”
Gabrielle Burton
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What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
John Calvin
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But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.
Charles Dickens
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Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.
Rich Mullins
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We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
Catherine Ponder
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A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Richard Le Gallienne
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Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Lao Tzu
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
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Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
Ethel Waters
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Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise.
Akhenaton
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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.
Virginia Woolf
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I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
Judge Reinhold
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald
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Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.
Rhonda Byrne
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I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
Ranveer Singh