He only profits from praise who values criticism.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
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 ~
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 ~
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
~By Christopher Morley ~
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
~By John Cleese ~
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
~By Philip Schaff ~
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
~By Edmund Waller ~
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
~By Garet Garrett ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
~By James Mcneill Whistler ~
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 ~
In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
~By James Beattie ~
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 is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
~By Moliere ~
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 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 ~
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~By Socrates ~
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 ~
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
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 ~
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
~By Jose C. Orozco ~
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
~By Robert Martin ~
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
~By James M. Barrie ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
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 ~
You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
~By Lucinda Williams ~
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
~By Howell Forgy ~
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 ~
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
~By Studs Terkel ~
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 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 out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
~By Fyodor Dostoevsky ~
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
~By Mark Twain ~
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
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 ~
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 ~
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
~By Nagarjuna ~
Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
~By Karl Marx ~
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 ~
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
~By John Wooden ~
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
~By Albert Barnes ~
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 ~
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.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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 ~
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
~By Sharon Gless ~
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
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 ~
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
~By Leo Rosten ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
~By Lance Loud ~
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 ~
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 ~
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~By Matthew Hale ~
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 ~
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 ~
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
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 ~
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
~By Billy Joel ~
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 ~
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
~By Bobby Jones ~
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