Praise Quotes
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
William Law
The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
Lorenzo Snow
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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
Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Moliere
To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land.
George Washington
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Blaise Pascal
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
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
John Harington
Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
Daisaku Ikeda
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
Ethan Hawke
Those who praise themselves do not prevail.
Lao Tzu
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
Bono
U2
You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.
Evan Esar
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
Mother Teresa
