Praise Quotes

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

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.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

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

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

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Their silence is praise enough.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

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

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

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

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

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.