Praise Quotes
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
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All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
Mike Tyson
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Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.
Jack Canfield
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The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
Francis Chan
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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 from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Francis Bacon
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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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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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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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
