Praise Quotes

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.