Casts Quote by Horace

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his…

— Owen Feltham

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

— Jean Baudrillard

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

— Javier Mascherano

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

— Luc de Clapiers

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

— Joshua Kimmich

“Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

— James Mackintosh

Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

— Carl Lentz

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise…

— Samuel Johnson

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

— Chuck Berry