Praise Quotes
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
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The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Ellie Goulding
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Ah woe is me, through all my days Wisdom and wealth I both have got, And fame and name and great men's praise; But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
H. C. Bunner
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
Euripides
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Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
Dale Carnegie
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Abraham Lincoln
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The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
Ken Bruen
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
William Shakespeare
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If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Blaise Pascal
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
Lao Tzu
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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
John Harington
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According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty criticism." Perhaps in human relationships both of these meanings could apply. Almost all men will respond to sincere praise and rebel at harsh and cutting criticisms.
Marvin J. Ashton
