Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and simply, what love is and how love likes to behave.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Just be quiet and accept the praise.