Praise Quotes · Page 47

“I’ve realised that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.”

— Louise Penny

When considering praise or criticism first consider the source.

— Jeff Daly

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

— Donovan Bailey

The man who seeks your advice too often is probably looking for praise rather than information.

— Vikrant Parsai

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

— Stephen Baldwin

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

— Roger Ebert

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty…

— Seneca the Younger

“Our prayer is that as you read, you’ll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it’s…

— Timothy J. Keller

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions…

— Peter Stuyvesant

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does…

— James Russell Lowell

“If we lived each day as our last, I bet we’d all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn’t…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!”

— Germany Kent

“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any…

— Anonymous

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

— Horace Mann

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

— Eckhart Tolle

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe…

— Charles R. Schwab

When we, believers, sing our songs of worship, not only do we praise God through them, but we preach to ourselves. As…

— Matt Redman

“It is always beneficial to praise the Lord; it cheers the day and brightens the night; it lightens toil and softens sorrow;…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was…

— Plutarch

Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay…

— Thomas Ken

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,…

— Anonymous

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every…

— Anonymous

“Ijapokuwa maombi ya sifa yana nguvu kuliko maombi ya kushukuru, kushukuru kuna nguvu kuliko kuomba.”

— Enock Maregesi

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If God made every woman as lovely as you, men wouldn't appreciate beauty as much

— Karan

“Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.”

— Lorii Myers

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

— Yasmin Mogahed

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

— Dean Smith

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

— Tami Hoag

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

— Bill Walsh

Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.

— Brian Houston

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

— Khalil Gibran

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

— Bernard Crick

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

— Maruf Karkhi

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

— Giacomo Casanova

“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.”

— Amit Kalantri

I praise God because he not only guides my directions but overrules my mistakes.

— H Norman Pell

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

— Alfie Kohn