God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done…

“These are the days of Elijah Declaring the Word of the Lord And these are the days of your servant Moses Righteousness being restored…

— Walid Shoebat

“Vain men never hear anything but praise.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement,…

— Abraham Cowley

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside…

— Barbara Sher

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

— Walter Savage Landor

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want…

— Truman Capote

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.”

— Lynn Cullen

“A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective,…

— Derek Landy

A man is merely to implement the law. He is there not to decide what to implement as we already have the law. We…

— Anjem Choudary

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age…

— Alain de Botton

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita