Ice cream Quote by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

“Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism both at…

— Scott Adams

“Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”

— Suzy Kassem

“praise is offered based on God’s worthiness, not your needs,”

— Terry Law

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

— Latin Proverb

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

“That’s the nature of praise. It draws our attention away from our problems, no matter how overwhelming they are, and lifts our gaze to…

— Terry Law

“Our receptivity to praise stands in no relationship to our vulnerability to mean disdain and spiteful abuse. No matter how stupid such abuse is,…

— Thomas Mann

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has…

— Tryon Edwards