Praise Quotes · Page 41

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.”

— Tiruvalluvar

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

— Georges Cuvier

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

— Dale Carnegie

It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.

— Louie Giglio

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

— Henry Wotton

Hmmm! well what cud I say except that I just forgot the wordz 2 praise u as I saw u at once…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise…

— R. Kent Hughes

A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism.…

— William Arthur Ward

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy.…

— Rick Warren

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is…

— Charles Spurgeon

The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools,…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

— Isocrates

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said…

— Michael Shermer

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom,…

— Pope Francis

...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as…

— John Cassian

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

“At an earlier time there was no pleasure in the law for me. But now I find that the law is good…

— Martin Luther

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

— Aristotle

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments,…

— Alan Dershowitz

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives…

— Sinclair Lewis

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

— William Shakespeare

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of…

— Thomas a Kempis

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

— Seneca the Younger

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

— Seungsahn

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

— William Morley Punshon

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

— Howard Behar

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

— Jude Bijou

I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

— Ed Weeks

'Oh that men praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the Children and Men!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

— Juvenal

I don't have enough words to praise Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali and Shadab Khan.

— Sarfaraz Ahmed

“me, O LORD, and I shall be healed;         save me, and I shall be saved,         for  v you are my praise.”

— Anonymous

“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.”

— Steve Maraboli

If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

— Umar