Praised Quotes
238 Praised quotes by 187 unique authors
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
— Quintilian
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Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
— Richard Rohr
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For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do…
— Stephen Dobyns
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
— Fiona Shaw
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Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather…
— Rollo May
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Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.
— Laozi
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
— Laozi
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If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
— Rockwell Kent
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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have…
— Edward Dahlberg
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"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow:…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him…
— John Climacus
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This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you…
— Rajneesh
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A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite…
— Elaine A. Cannon
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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally…
— Laozi
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We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
— Henry Allen Ironside
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[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all…
— Richard M. Weaver
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Integrity is praised, and starves.
— Juvenal
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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
— John C. Maxwell
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The most-praised generation goes to work
— Jeffrey Zaslow
Who Wrote These Praised Quotes
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