Praise Quotes

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

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.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

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

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

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

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

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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.