Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.… — Marcus Aurelius
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait… — Epictetus
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer. — Ken Bruen
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) — J D Salinger
It doesn't take much to show love, but at some time or another in your, praise God, disastrous life you must have felt, honestly and… — Robert Walser
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race… — John Milton
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy… — George Herbert
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a… — Sharon Shinn
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised. — Joyce Meyer
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to… — Eudora Welty
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering… — Sophie Scholl
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against… — Andrew Murray
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not… — Ian Fleming
However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.… — Frank O'Hara
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This… — Pat Conroy
Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask… — Swami Satchidananda
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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