Praise Quotes

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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.

Self praise is no praise at all.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

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

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

A little praise goes a great ways.

We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.