Praise Quotes
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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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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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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
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Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
William Morley Punshon
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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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An addiction to a fix of praise-
Rely on me to say it’s okay-
There’s only room for one in the sun-
There was only one of me and you once
Mike Skinner
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New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. ... It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
Joseph C.Lincoln
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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.
William Shakespeare
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
Albert Payson Terhune
