Praise Quotes

1794 quotes by 1092 authors

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise. — Roland de Vaux
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm… — Callie Khouri
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time,… — Unknown Author
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something… — Alex Faickney Osborn
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. — Eric Hoffer
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. — Horace Mann
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one. — Charles Caleb Colton
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. — William Penn
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. — Horace
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful… — Charles Caleb Colton
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. — Augustus William Hare
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. — Norm MacDonald
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings… — Chanakya
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end. — John Boyle O'Reilly

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