A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong. — Callum Smith Copy Share Image
Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see. — Carl Lentz Copy Share Image
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to… — J. B. Stoner Copy Share Image
I was taught from an early age that we need to praise the Lord when things are going good, and praise the… — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
On my bad days I seek you, on my good days I thank you, on my great days I praise you, but… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened:… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“He will praise you when you shall do well to him,” [96] but few sing and give thanks to God in the… — Francisco De Osuna Copy Share Image
People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the… — Steven Pressfield 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
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image