We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
Everyone loves winners. You look for things to praise with those you believe in. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“We judge others by their doings, but ourselves by our intentions. EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Praise and esteem bring about skill where skill deserves comendation. When wisdom is adorned with praise it blossoms in profusion.” — Gottfried Von Strassburg Copy Share Image
“Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration;… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I heard all these birds singing and singing so loud and so cheerful. Little birds were chirping and chirping. Big birds were… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us - set us right with him, make us… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world. — Caroline Pafford Miller Copy Share Image
