Praise Quotes

1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises. — George MacDonald
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we… — Izaak Walton
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be… — John Ruskin
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor… — Laozi
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily… — John Taylor Gatto
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the… — Mark Twain
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases. — Charles Mingus
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience… — Unknown Author
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone.… — Leo Tolstoy
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. — Alice Walker
If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business. — Edward Heath
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. — Bernard Crick
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… — Christopher Hitchens
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. — William Shakespeare
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn… — Saint Augustine
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. — Karl Marx
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To… — Charles R. Swindoll
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They… — George Balanchine
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things,… — Anton Chekhov
Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise? — Matt Papa
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of… — Sinclair B. Ferguson

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