Praise Quotes

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Their silence is praise enough.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

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

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.