Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
~By Martin Yan ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
~By Jean Rostand ~
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
~By Richard Steele ~
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
~By Ann Patchett ~
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.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
~By Alex Haley ~
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
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 ~
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
~By John Adams ~
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
~By Edmund Waller ~
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
~By Will Adams ~
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
~By Oliver Stone ~
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
~By Karl Marx ~
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 ~
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~By Roger Ascham ~
Neither blame or praise yourself.
~By Plutarch ~
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 ~
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
~By John Ciardi ~
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
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 ~
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
~By Mark Twain ~
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~By Sharon Gless ~
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 ~
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
~By John Burns ~
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
~By Noel Coward ~
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
~By Moliere ~
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
~By Eli Wallach ~
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!
~By Sophia Bush ~
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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 ~
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
~By Howell Forgy ~
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 ~
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
~By Augustus Hare ~
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
~By Nagarjuna ~
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
~By Philip Schaff ~
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
~By William Shakespeare ~
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
~By Janine Turner ~
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
~By Cleopatra ~
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
~By John Wooden ~
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Their silence is praise enough.
~By Terence ~
Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
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 ~
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
~By Taliesin ~
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
~By John Cleese ~
I will praise any man that will praise me.
~By William Shakespeare ~
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
~By Charley Pride ~
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
~By James Wolfe ~
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
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 ~
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 ~
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
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 ~
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
~By Jose C. Orozco ~
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
~By Mary H. Waldrip ~
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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