Best Praising Sayings
121 Praising quotes by 106 unique authors
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To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
— Mark McGrath
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.
— Phil Donahue
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going…
— Victor Garber
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I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for…
— Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
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A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
— Criss Jami
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Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you…
— Ibn Arabi
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In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin…
— Sylvia Brownrigg
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing…
— Will Durant
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Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This…
— Ernie Harwell
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The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
— Harvey Mackay
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim…
— George Orwell
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards…
— George Orwell
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
— Sydney Smith
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising…
— John Sununu
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I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never…
— Ellen G. White
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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
— Steve Wozniak
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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private…
— Pablo Neruda
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying…
— Rumi
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If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant…
— Winston Churchill
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
— William Shakespeare
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Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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