We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a… — Bob Burg Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. — Sextus Propertius Copy Share Image
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono Copy Share Image
His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
“The name of Robert G. Ingersoll is in the pantheon of the world. More than any other man who ever lived he… — Eugene Victor Debs 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
If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to… — Eric Felten Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Oh 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
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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