Believe Quote by Jean Rostand

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

— Jean Rostand

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“praise is offered based on God’s worthiness, not your needs,”

— Terry Law

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

— Michel de Montaigne

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

— Anonymous

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

— David Hume

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has…

— Tryon Edwards

We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only…

— Dale Carnegie

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes,…

— Thomas Browne

We praise people when goes beyond but hate while with us.

— Suman Aakrosh