Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Praise children when they do good, And if they should stumble or fall, Show them how to be humble, Show them how… — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
