When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
“If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
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
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. – Psalm 147:1” — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit,… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
“Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore… — John Knox Copy Share Image
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial Copy Share Image
When we are happy or sad, having a good time or bad time. Don't forget to pray. — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“GIVE THANKS AND PRAISE THE LORD, AND WE'LL FEEL ALRIGHT LET'S GET TOGETHER AND FEEL ALRIGHT” — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
“No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.” — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
