Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

Always make the other person feel important.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

Blame is safer than praise

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

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

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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

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

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?

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

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

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

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

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

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

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

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

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.