Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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 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 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 thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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

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

...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.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

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

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

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

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.

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

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.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.

Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

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)

You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.