Praise Quotes · Page 40

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

— Steve Cotterill

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

— Edward Heath

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

— Tom Selleck

“Set out time to worship God in your closet, give Him quality praise and watch Him raise you.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

— Chord Overstreet

“If you complain you will remain, if you praise you will be raised.”

— Joel Osteen

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

— Christopher Hitchens

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only…

— Khalil Gibran

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Cultivate wonder in your children, make your home a chapel of praise. Give thanks, always, with a glad heart. Look for God's…

— Anonymous

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest…

— William Burkitt

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The…

— Sherwood Anderson

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.…

— John Ruskin

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me…

— Chris Van Allsburg

“May every voice proclaim thy praise. And every knee bow in thy presence The tangible promise of our faith. May thy Charity,…

— Jessica Coupe

“Praise to the Lord       1   Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!   O my…

— Anonymous

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were…

— Anonymous

I feel that single mommies don't get enough praise and accolades. I've had first-hand experience. My mother was a single mom. As…

— Nia Long

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . .…

— Pam Houston

I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global…

— Laurie Holden

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet…

— Peter Drucker

It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.…

— Martin Luther

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

— Horace

We're all being judged by somebody who doesn't even have thier shit together.

— Mario Tomasello

Classic book is a book which people praise, but do not read.

— Abhishek Tiwari

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

— Walter Raleigh

“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

— Karl Barth

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

— Louis Untermeyer

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

— Harvey Mackay

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.

— Rumi

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

— Daisaku Ikeda

We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

— Eric Harvey

I praise God because he not only guides my directions but overrules my mistakes.

— H Norman Pell

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

— Alfie Kohn

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

— Giacomo Casanova

“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.”

— Amit Kalantri