Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.

When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.