Praise Quotes
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What you praise you increase.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!
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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.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
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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?
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
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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.
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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
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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.
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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
