Praise Quotes

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.

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.

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

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.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

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

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.