Praise Quotes · Page 45

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

— Arthur Helps

I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.

— Xabi Alonso

“You’d worry less about what they thought if you knew how little they did.”

— Mike Skinner

I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up…

— Anthony Foley

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You've to close down your umbrella when you are under a canopy. Drop your pride; give praise to God!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

— Alexander Pope

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

— Matthew Henry

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but…

— Pericles

When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.

— Katie Taylor

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being…

— Anushka Shetty

I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like,…

— Drew Barrymore

“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not…

— Anaïs Nin

Being that frank and being that open, there's more praise than there is negativity. It's just the negativity gets printed because you're…

— Chelsea Handler

Hmmm! and when I look at you! although I am a scholar but all of my grabbed words wriggle and then I…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too…

— Arne Jacobsen

“Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject…

— Raphael Zernoff

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise…

— Jamie Hyneman

“Tommy cocooned me in his arms. The same arms that struck out to protect me, the arms that saved me. “In my…

— Maggi Myers

Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish…

— Adela Popescu

I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of…

— Francis of Assisi

The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good…

— Laozi

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines…

— James M. Barrie

'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry,…

— Carl Honore

Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that…

— Marcus Smart

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

— Honore de Balzac

“The more we hear ourselves grumble and complain, the more we take it to heart and believe our own words.”

— Nancy Wilson

Feel like the hope is gone but as I lift my hands, I understand that I should praise you through my circumstance.

— Mary Mary

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

— Mario Fernandez

Loss of Power, pushing into His presence continued, power back on. Praise on.

— Anonymous

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

— John Piper

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

— Oprah Winfrey

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

— Mark the Evangelist

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

— Euripides

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

— John Harington

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

— Seneca the Younger

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

— Anonymous