Praise Quote by Latin Proverb

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Kate Langley Bosher

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it…

— Samuel Johnson

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

— James Boswell

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

— Anonymous

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

— Max Lucado