Praise Quotes
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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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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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Praise and disgrace cause fear.
Lao Tzu
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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
Cato the Elder
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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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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great
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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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The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.
Abraham Myerson
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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 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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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
George Horace Lorimer
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Praise God we don't have to hide scars
Jonny Diaz
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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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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William Francis Buckley
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare
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Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
Carl Lentz
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We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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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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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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