Praise Quotes
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William Francis Buckley
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
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Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
Boy George Culture Club
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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Praise God we don't have to hide scars
Jonny Diaz
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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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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
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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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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare
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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.
David
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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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
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
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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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Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Plutarch
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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.
John Ruskin
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We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.
Cecil Frances Alexander
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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.
Umar
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Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
Carl Lentz