Praise Quotes

Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

Praise little, dispraise less.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

You can't eat compliments.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

I would pray that I'd leave a legacy of faith, trust and joy. For the joy of the Lord has been my strength and song, and I praise Him.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like, moody or hormonal people. I don’t know how men deal with it. I praise them.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

False praise is worse than no praise.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Usually we praise only to be praised.