Praise Quotes

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

Steve Martin
- Criticism
- Praise
- Reviews
Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.

Nellie Bly
- Praise
- Frank
- Politeness

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
- People
- Truth
- Praise
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Glory
- Minutes
- Bless
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose
- Praise
- Nurse
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Carol S. Dweck
- Kind
- Students
- Behavior
An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Evan Esar
- Actor
- Praise
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

John Ruskin
- Blame
- Praise
- Pictures