Praise Quotes
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
William Cowper
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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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It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Marilyn Monroe
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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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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
Michael Caine
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!
Alex Faickney Osborn
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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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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston
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The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
Sue Kelly
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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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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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“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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Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
Ethel Waters
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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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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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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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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.
Tony Blair
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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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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
Ranveer Singh
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Praise thyself never.
Seneca the Younger