Praise Quotes
1794 Praise quotes by 1092 unique authors
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We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
— William Penn
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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
— Horace
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There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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
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The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.
— Augustus William Hare
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
— Norm MacDonald
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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
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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
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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
— Aristotle
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Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak…
— Owen Feltham
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No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
— Arthur Helps
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Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.
— Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
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He, who loves praise, loves temptation.
— Thomas F. Wilson
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
— Norm MacDonald
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
— Charles Churchill
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For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
— Euripides
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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
— Isaac Barrow
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
— Ivan Panin
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
— Walter Savage Landor
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There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
— Selma Lagerlöf
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
— John Wooden
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