Best 734 quotes in «praise quotes» category

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

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

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

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

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.

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

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.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Always make the other person feel important.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

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.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Brooklyn praise is half slander.