Praise Quotes
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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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!
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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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.
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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.
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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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."
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Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
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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.
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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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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.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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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.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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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.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.
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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.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
