Praise Quotes · Page 41

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“And if I please you so, my lover, Remember praise is comely.”

— Countee Cullen

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

— Alex Haley

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

— Bobby Jones

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

— William Shakespeare

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

— David Hume

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

— Emanuel Geibel

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

— Bill Parcells

And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will…

— Matt Redman

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt…

— Ellen G. White

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire…

— Joseph Addison

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it…

— Salman Rushdie

I keep God at the center of everything. I give Him all the praise. I lean on Him all the time. And…

— Jalen Hurts

The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had…

— Tony Hillerman

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native…

— Tim Wise

“ Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll 's humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience…

— Joseph Lewis

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of…

— Calvin Coolidge

I say we should praise Donald Trump for existing and for winning, because it has woken people up. For many years, I…

— Garry Kasparov

Busquets is a sitting midfield player who breaks up play, intercepts, passes it very quickly and is intelligent. That's what he is.…

— Sam Allardyce

Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.

— Vikrant Parsai

We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

— Ovid

We tend to judge people for the bad things they do unwillingly over the good things they do willingly.

— Derek Queen

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

— Nick Willing

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

— Taliesin

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

— Samuel Johnson

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

— Thomas a Kempis

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

— Edward Young

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us about ourselves, nor half the bad they say of others.

— Jonathan Petit Senn

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

— Walter Savage Landor

In subjective and objective ways,others judge our actions,attitudes,and performance.

— Craig Williams

“We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.”

— Paul Coelho

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

— Watchman Nee

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

— Eric Hoffer

“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?”

— Wataru Watari