Praise Quotes · Page 40

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

— Anonymous

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

— D. H. Lawrence

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

— Dan S Kennedy

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

— Swami Vivekananda

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.

— Bernard Crick

“If there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. —Philippians 4:8 (NAS)”

— Guideposts Books

“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened:…

— Leland Ryken

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good…

— Edward Albee

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

We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to…

— J. B. Stoner

I was taught from an early age that we need to praise the Lord when things are going good, and praise the…

— Jim Bob Duggar

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged,…

— John Updike

I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've…

— Joel Edgerton

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a…

— Henry Fairlie

The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Not understanding why affliction occurred has caused many to struggle with their faith. If we knew all the reasons and had the…

— Cheryl Zelenka

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to…

— Saint John Chrysostom

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the…

— Francis of Assisi

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of…

— Thomas Merton

The white-haired wonder leading what had to, by now, be a blocks-long parade must've finally turned on her hearing aid. Because she…

— Jennifer Rardin

“People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

— Conrad Veidt

“That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions

— Samuel Johnson

I can't think of much higher praise to give a player than to say, 'This point guard reminds me of Jason Kidd.'

— Ben Howland

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

— Dante Alighieri

I'll never praise myself, because I think there's always improvement to be made.

— Andrew Robertson

Don't you praise or chase, if you want to show that you like, just be straight !!!!!! *senora*

— Senoraroy

God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

— John Piper

Seize the moment to praise...there is so much that happens, but we miss it or doubt the effect of Praise.

— Anonymous

“The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.”

— Ashish Patel

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

— Mark McGrath

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

— Hartley Coleridge

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

— Bill Parcells

“Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.”

— Tom Hopkins