Praise Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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.

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

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