Praise Quotes
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The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
Carolyn Wells
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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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I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell
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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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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!
Alex Faickney Osborn
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Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.
Winifred Holtby
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Praise thyself never.
Seneca the Younger
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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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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
Norm MacDonald
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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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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Carol S. Dweck
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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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Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
Thomas Hobbes
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
Sharon Gless
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There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely if well aimed as praise.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
John Ruskin
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Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?
William Shakespeare
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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell
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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
Isaac Watts
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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
Thomas Hobbes