During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer,… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work –… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard,… — William Schutz Copy Share Image
A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experience? Yes,… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“God is better than the best,more intelligent than the most intelligent,more powerful than the most powerful and bigger than the biggest.” — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
