I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love,… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately we often get praise for things that weren't particularly difficult to achieve. If we focus on the props and encouragement of… — Alex Harris Copy Share Image
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ.… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated… — Mencius Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We think less about how others see and judge us and have the courage to ask ourselves what kind of person we… — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
Even in the past, going out to Germany to fight for the world title I was the underdog, was getting no praise… — Rocky Fielding Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn't translate to money… — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“Be humble to those who praise you, pleasant to those who honor you, kind to those who cherish you, good to those… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;… — Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Copy Share Image
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
We are commanded to recognize His glory, honor His glory, declare His glory, praise His glory, reflect His glory, and live for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
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