Praise Quotes
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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 -
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
Erica Jong -
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
William Wordsworth -
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Jonathan Swift -
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 -
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
William Shakespeare -
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."
David Boudia -
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
Mother Teresa
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Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.
Lao Tzu -
Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.
William Burkitt -
The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
Elisabeth Marbury -
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt -
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes -
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Marilyn Monroe
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Thomas Ken -
When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.
Mike Royko -
Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Edmund Gosse -
You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.
Bob Hicok