Praise Quotes

Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Flattery is praise without foundation.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Lord! who hath praise enough?

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.