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 ~
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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 ~
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~By Socrates ~
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
~By John Madden ~
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
~By William Penn ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
~By Owen Feltham ~
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
~By Alexander Pope ~
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
~By Bobby Jones ~
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
~By Marie Corelli ~
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 ~
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
~By Robert Martin ~
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 ~
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
~By Dean Smith ~
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~By Xenophon ~
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
~By Jose C. Orozco ~
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
~By James Beattie ~
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 ~
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
~By James M. Barrie ~
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 ~
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
~By Alexander Pope ~
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
~By Mary H. Waldrip ~
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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 ~
Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
~By Mary Ann Mobley ~
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
~By Anna Lindh ~
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
~By William Butler Yeats ~
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
~By Janine Turner ~
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 ~
Praise the sea, on shore remain.
~By John Florio ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
~By Robert Collier ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~By Sharon Gless ~
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 ~
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
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 ~
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
~By William Shakespeare ~
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
~By Tom Selleck ~
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
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 ~
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
~By Martin Yan ~
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
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 ~
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.
~By Roger Ascham ~
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