All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
~By Jose C. Orozco ~
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.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
~By Jean Rostand ~
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 ~
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 ~
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
~By Bobby Jones ~
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 ~
Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
~By Arnold H. Glasgow ~
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 ~
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
~By Cotton Mather ~
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
~By Satchel Paige ~
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 ~
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
~By Edmund Waller ~
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~By Roger Ascham ~
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
~By Richard Perle ~
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
~By Marie Corelli ~
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
~By Robert Martin ~
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 ~
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
~By Catherine the Great ~
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
~By William Butler Yeats ~
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
~By Edmund Waller ~
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.
~By Alec Waugh ~
Usually we praise only to be praised.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Neither blame or praise yourself.
~By Plutarch ~
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
~By William James ~
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 ~
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
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 ~
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
~By Eli Wallach ~
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
~By John Gay ~
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
~By Romain Rolland ~
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
~By Mark Twain ~
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~By Xenophon ~
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
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 ~
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
~By Stanley Smith Stevens ~
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
~By Howell Forgy ~
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
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 ~
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
~By Richard Steele ~
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
~By Alexander Pope ~
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
~By George Balanchine ~
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.
~By John T. Flynn ~
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
~By James Wolfe ~
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
~By John Wooden ~
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 ~
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
~By Martin van Creveld ~
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 ~
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
~By Dean Smith ~
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 ~
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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 ~
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
~By Philip Schaff ~
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
~By John Cleese ~
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 ~
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 ~
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
~By Sophocles ~
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~By Sharon Gless ~
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
~By Marianne Moore ~
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
~By Nagarjuna ~
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 ~
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
~By John Madden ~
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
~By Mary H. Waldrip ~
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.
~By John Strachan ~
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
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