Praise Quotes
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Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!
Francisco Goldman -
I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
William Francis Buckley
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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 -
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell -
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
William Cobbett -
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Jane Austen -
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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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 -
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 -
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
Selma Lagerlof -
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley -
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Bernard Crick
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
Rudyard Kipling -
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
William Lewis Safir -
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 -
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 -
No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
Albert Payson Terhune -
Flattery is praise without foundation.
Eliza Leslie
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
Chuck Berry -
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Mother Teresa -
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?
Warsan Shire -
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Plato