Praise Quotes

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

— William Shenstone

“You damn with faint praise.”

— Miranda Davis

The work praises the man.

— Charles L. Allen

No praise, no blame. Just so.

— Isaac Marion

I don't look for praise.

— Deborah Meaden

Wonder is involuntary praise.

— Edward Young

Blame is safer than praise

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bless more; blame less.

— Marianne Williamson

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

— Laozi

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

— Owen Feltham

I just try to use my platform to praise God.

— Tua Tagovailoa

Praise God we don't have to hide scars

— Jonny Diaz

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

— Chuck Berry

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

— Winston Churchill

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

— Anonymous

We increase whatever we praise.

— Charles Fillmore

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

— Elia Kazan

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

— Catherine the Great

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

— Giles Duley

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy.

— Sir Philip Sidney

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

— James Montgomery

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

— Tim Cope

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a…

— Pericles

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But…

— Ole Hallesby

“She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt…

— Margaret Landon

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt…

— George Bernard Shaw

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son,…

— Thomas Ken

Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me…

— Jack W. Hayford

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring…

— Sarah Weinman

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or…

— Samuel Johnson

Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by…

— C. Sommerville

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered…

— Paul Di Filippo

I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally.…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so…

— William Shakespeare

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the…

— Marianne Williamson

They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that…

— Dante Alighieri

“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to…

— Joseph Lewis