Praise Quotes · Page 43

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

— Roger Ascham

“Can we ever really judge behavior by the behavior itself? Lesson learned. Most often, we can’t.”

— James Patterson

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do…

— Bible

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

— Frederick Lenz

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

— Tryon Edwards

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

“We should forever forswear the masochistic process wherein we seek another's approval before we have even asked ourselves whether that person's views…

— Alain de Botton

“We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements…

— Matthew Henry

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next…

— Jeremy Taylor

Having a chance to work with Dusty Rhodes, he has helped me so much that I can't even praise how much. The…

— Tyson Kidd

“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all…

— Truman Capote

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your…

— Robin S. Sharma

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go…

— George Horace Lorimer

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.…

— May Sarton

To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be…

— Roger Scruton

Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect…

— Tony Campolo

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

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly…

— Anthony Burgess

“Father, I anticipate the good things You have prepared for me today. Bring complete order to my day as I seek You…

— Cindy Trimm

May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May…

— Mother Teresa

So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a…

— Eric Schlosser

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

— Frank Lampard

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

— Samuel Johnson

Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

— Roland de Vaux

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

— Anonymous

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

— Alexander Pope

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

— Washington Allston

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

— Christoph Waltz

“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”

— Stephen M.R. Covey

I don't care if it's rude to stare. You're cute. Therefore, I shall stare

— Anonymous

Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the…

— Mother Angelica

It is always positive when you get a lot of praise, but you should handle it the right way.

— Mario Gotze

We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions.

— Anonymous

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

— Ovid

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

— Matthew Hale