Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Blame is safer than praise

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Cease Fire ! Inshallah!!! Baruch Hashem!! Praise the Lord! #ceasefireforever #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Donald Trump really is a fan of the Bible, except that it's far too long for him to read. So he just released a new, improved version, the Gospel According to Trump. It reads: "I, Donald Trump, am God. Praise, worship, and adore Me as I do Myself. Then all shall be Great, as I am Great. The End.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

Envy bestrides praise.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

False praise is always confined to the great.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

Every potter praises his own pot.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.