Praise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
If you're in Australia and you're into technology, Yow! is a no-brainer, but I am going to sing their praises anyway. I've never been so humbled to meet another speaker, or so honored to be in the presence of an conference organizer, as I have been with Yow! It's not just impressive. It's a reason to go to Australia.
-- Mike Lee -
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
-- Minna Antrim -
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
-- Mother Teresa -
Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.
-- Myles Munroe -
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
-- Neil Finn -
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
-- Nellie Bly -
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.
-- Nicole Richie -
Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
-- Nuno Oliveira -
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
-- Orlando Aloysius Battista -
Praise be Allah and prayers and peace upon Mohammed.
-- Osama bin Laden -
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
-- Ovid -
Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.
-- Ovid -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
-- Owen Feltham -
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
-- Pat Martino -
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
-- Paul Kagame -
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.
-- Pericles -
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
-- Phil Donahue -
Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
-- Phineas Fletcher -
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais -
That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
-- Plato -
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.
-- Pope Francis -
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
-- Quentin Crisp -
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
-- Radhanath Swami -
Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?
-- Randall Jarrell -
I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
-- Randy Savage -
I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
-- Ranveer Singh -
When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
-- Red Barber -
Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
-- Richard Branson -
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
-- Richard Rohr -
Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.
-- Richard Sherman -
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
-- Richard Steele -
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
-- Robert Genn -
It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
-- Robert Smith Surtees -
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
-- Robert Wilson Lynd -
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
-- Rumi -
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
-- Sam Raimi -
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
-- Sam Walton -
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
-- Samuel Butler -
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.
-- Scott Berkun -
But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
-- Scott Westerfeld -
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
-- Selma Lagerlöf -
The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
-- Seungsahn -
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
-- Shams Tabrizi -
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
-- Sharon Gless -
Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their industry and ability. Few papers will risk any attack on the Jews, however well-founded, for fear of appearing even distantly anti-Semitic.
-- Sidney Robertson Cowell -
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
-- Solon -
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
-- Stephen Ambrose -
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.
-- Stephen Baldwin -
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
-- Sydney Smith -
There are not enough poems in praise of bed ...
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!
-- Thomas Chatterton -
The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.
-- Thomas Haynes Bayly -
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
-- Thomas Merton -
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.
-- Thomas Sprat -
Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading.
-- Tim Hughes -
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
-- Tryon Edwards -
The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
-- Veronica Roth -
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
-- Virginia Woolf -
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
-- Virginia Woolf -
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
-- Wahb ibn Munabbih -
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
-- Walter Raleigh -
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
-- Washington Allston -
If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.
-- Watchman Nee -
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
-- Wendell Berry -
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
-- Wendell Phillips -
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine -
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
-- William Cowper -
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
-- William Morley Punshon -
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
-- William Shenstone -
God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
-- Witness Lee -
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.
-- Wumen Huikai -
The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
-- Wyndham Lewis
