Praise Quotes

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Their silence is enough praise.