Praise Quotes
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You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.
Evan Esar
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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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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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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Moliere
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I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.
Alice Cooper
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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
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
Daisaku Ikeda
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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
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All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.
Keith Getty
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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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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
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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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Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?
Warsan Shire
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The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.
George Washington