Praise Quotes
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A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
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Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.
Umar
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There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
Selma Lagerlof
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I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I’ve ever seen. I don’t dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can’t find them.
Roy Keane
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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
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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Dan S. Kennedy
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
C. S. Lewis
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare
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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Lao Tzu
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
Cecil Rhodes
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Praise God we don't have to hide scars
Jonny Diaz
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca the Younger
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Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.
Sarah Bernhardt
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Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.
Bias of Priene
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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?
Lao Tzu
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God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
Witness Lee
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I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!
Anthony Foley
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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.
Edgar Fawcett
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We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.
Cecil Frances Alexander