Praise Quotes

“Glory to Holy God!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Praise, like the devil.

— Sevendust

What you praise you increase.

— Catherine Ponder

Lord! who hath praise enough?

— George Herbert

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

Praise thyself never.

— Seneca the Younger

“Judge them not equally.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Fool's praise is censure

— Proverb

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

— Joanne Greenberg

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

— Alfred Korzybski

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

— Mark Batterson

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

— William Cobbett

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

— Catherine the Great

“Praise the God of heavens, he alone is holy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

— William Shenstone

Praise be Allah and prayers and peace upon Mohammed.

— Osama bin Laden

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

— John Ruskin

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

— William Shakespeare

May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands

— Bible

If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

— John A. Sanford

The reason why I praise the lion is because the lion is the king of the jungle.

— DJ Khaled

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Awake, my heart, And do such deeds as in the time to come No tongue shall praise, but none refuse to tell.”

— Seneca

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that…

— Czeslaw Milosz

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society…

— Timothy Noah

In my song 'First Class' from the film 'Kalank', I was okay with the shorter part in the duet because it was…

— Neeti Mohan

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of…

— Louis Untermeyer

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while…

— Barbara Smoker

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every…

— Edward Gibbon

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the…

— Jim Ferree

“The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in…

— William Barclay

'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

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

“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

“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