No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is no shame in not knowing. It's curious that we spend more time congratulating those who have succeeded than encouraging those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What's so praiseworthy about entrusting your sense of what's right to someone else?” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all… — R. T. Kendall Copy Share Image
True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. — Emanuel Geibel Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God resides in his every being, if you really love god, you don't need to sit on a place to repeat his… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as… — John Cassian Copy Share Image