Praise Quotes

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

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

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

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

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

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

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

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.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

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.