Praise Quotes

All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

Envy bestrides praise.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

We are commanded to recognize His glory, honor His glory, declare His glory, praise His glory, reflect His glory, and live for His glory.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".