Praise Quotes
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The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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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.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
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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
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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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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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The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
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Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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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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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.
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There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
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Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
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Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
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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.
