Praise Quotes

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

I don't want to give Robbie Blake any praise, but he was superb.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Self praise is no praise at all.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.