Praise Quotes
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
Lao Tzu -
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
William Butler Yeats -
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
Lao Tzu -
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
Lord Byron -
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Dan S. Kennedy -
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
John Harington -
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
John Ruskin -
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Francis Bacon -
Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.
Richard Sherman -
Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.
Basilea Schlink -
Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Lao Tzu
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Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
Frances E. Willard -
Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
Albert Einstein -
Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Lao Tzu -
Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.
Umar -
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
William Shakespeare
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William Francis Buckley -
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
George Madison Adams -
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides -
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
David