Keeping it real Quote by Ram Kumar Verma

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory…

— Michel de Montaigne

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

— Augustus Hare

God is truth and light his shadow.

— Plato

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who…

— Chanakya

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