Praise Quotes
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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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.
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Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
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Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
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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.
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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!
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You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'
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Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
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The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
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Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
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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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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.
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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.
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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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.
