Character Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

— Kate Langley Bosher

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

— Thomas Fuller

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a…

— William Barclay

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high…

— Thomas Sprat

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

— Bernard Crick

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that…

— Anonymous

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

— Jose Marti

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

— Horace

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

— Seneca the Younger

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

— Jean Paul