Identity Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— James Boswell

A man's praise limits its object to the confines of his own understanding.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks…

— Robert Boyle

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

— George Farquhar

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

— Haim Ginott

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

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

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

— Jean Paul

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

— Anonymous

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

— Jean Paul