..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones-… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise — Latin Proverb Copy Share Image
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since… — Ovid Copy Share Image
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
