Greatness Quote by William Hazlitt

I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

— Paul Dano

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

— Carl Lentz

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

— Luc de Clapiers

Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.

— Raashi Khanna

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

— Jean de la Bruyere

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Latin Proverb

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Samuel Johnson

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