Praise Quotes

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

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.

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.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

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

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

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

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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

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

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

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

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

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.