Praise Quotes

No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.

Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Good things should be praised.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

Great is the Lord. He is worthy of praise.

Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

When you are ready to be done with the day, praise yourself with love and kindness for the hard work and accomplishments made during the day.

GOD will never disregard or turn away sincere prayers from those who diligently seek Him and humbly call upon His Name.