Praise Quotes

• Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

  

  Plutarch
  • Prove
  • Praise
  • Greedy

• The issue is that when you're a critic it's hard to tell the difference between the thrill of denouncing and telling the truth. Telling the truth to me feels more often like denouncing than like praising. There are many more concrete advantages in the world for people who praise than for those who denounce. So if you want to tell the truth, oftentimes you're going to err on the side of denouncing. That's just something I have to work on.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • People
  • World
  • Truth

• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Tears
  • Sacrifice
  • Charity

• 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
  • Song
  • Promise
  • Generations

• I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Listening
  • Criticism

• The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Powerful
  • inspirational

• 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
  • Praise
  • Gospel
  • Psalms

• Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

  

  Neil Finn Fleetwood Mac
  • Kindness
  • Praise
  • Debt

• Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Men
  • Virtue
  • Blame

• If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

  

  William Law
  • Perfection
  • Praise
  • Thankfulness

• 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
  • Proud
  • Humble
  • Discouraged

• What you praise you increase.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Praise
  • Increase

• The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

  

  Brandy
  • Good
  • Opinions
  • Bonus

• I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Praise
  • Admirer

• I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Name
  • Slave
  • Religious Leader

• When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Deal
  • Larry Brown
  • Allen Iverson

• All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Allah

• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Today

• I praise loudly. I blame softly.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Blame
  • Softly
  • Loudly

• The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Health
  • Made
  • Crank

• It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Men
  • Pleasure
  • Natural

• But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Stories
  • Glasses

• We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Blame
  • Praise
  • Judgement

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