Praise Quotes
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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
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Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.
Nellie Bly
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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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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
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
Carol S. Dweck
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
Evan Esar
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It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Stephen Ambrose
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel