Praise Quotes

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.

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

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.

A little praise goes a great ways.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

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.

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

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.

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.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

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.

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

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

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

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.