Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think… — William Butler Yeats
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage… — Jonathan Edwards
Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that… — Darynda Jones
Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise… — Samuel Richardson
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to… — Virginia Woolf
To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us,… — F B Meyer
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work... Do the best you can… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking… — Jane Austen
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill… — George R. R. Martin
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you… — C.S. Lewis
As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in… — Sharon Salzberg
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman… — Unknown Author
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they… — Aristophanes
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then? — Quentin Crisp
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD — Rick Warren
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? — Jane Austen
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise… — Virginia C. Andrews

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