The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
~By Billy Graham ~
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
~By Howell Forgy ~
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
~By Bobby Jones ~
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
~By Kim Il sung ~
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
~By Patrick Gordon ~
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
~By Nagarjuna ~
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
~By James Beattie ~
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
~By Andre Maurois ~
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
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.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
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.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
~By Anna Lindh ~
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
~By William James ~
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.
~By George Crabbe ~
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
~By George Crabbe ~
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
~By Janine Turner ~
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
~By John Keats ~
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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.
~By John Masefield ~
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.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
~By Nick Lampson ~
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~By Xenophon ~
Usually we praise only to be praised.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
~By Alexander Smith ~
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
~By Russell Crowe ~
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
~By Dan Simmons ~
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
~By Moliere ~
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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!
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
~By Bill Walsh ~
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
~By Rockwell Kent ~
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
~By Lactantius ~
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
~By Robert Martin ~
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.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
~By Owen Feltham ~
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
~By Philip Schaff ~
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
~By Ovid ~
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
~By Jose C. Orozco ~
I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
~By Catherine II ~
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
~By Dean Smith ~
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
~By Albert Barnes ~
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
~By Jean Paul ~
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
~By Sue Kelly ~
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
~By Edmund Waller ~
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
~By Jean Rostand ~
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
~By Herman Melville ~
George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
~By Peter King ~
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~By Roger Ascham ~
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
~By Minna Antrim ~
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
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.
~By Fritz Perls ~
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
~By Cotton Mather ~
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
~By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
~By Laurel Lee ~
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