Praise Quotes
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
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. (Quote by - J B Priestley)
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises. (Quote by - Phineas Fletcher)
He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. (Quote by - John Milton)
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar. (Quote by - Cleopatra)
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. (Quote by - John Keats)
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him, and rejoice (Quote by - William Kethe)
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
'And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell', said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.' (Quote by - Robert Southey)
It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. (Quote by - Osbert Sitwell)
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. (Quote by - Phineas Fletcher)
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. (Quote by - John Gay)
None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise (Quote by - Fitz-Greene Halleck)
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Now God be praised, I will die in peace. (Quote by - James Wolfe)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. (Quote by - Socrates)
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Self - praise is no recommendation (Quote by - Proverb)
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. (Quote by - Thomas Morton)
I praise loudly; I blame softly. (Quote by - Catherine II)
Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no onev (Quote by - Emily Post)
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart. (Quote by - Oliver Sacks)
I would have praised you more had you praised me less. (Quote by - Louis XIV)
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. (Quote by - Xenophon)
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed. (Quote by - French Proverb)
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. (Quote by - John Adams)
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
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. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)
And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. (Quote by - John Milton)
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never (Quote by - Montaigne)
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
A eulogist of past times. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation. (Quote by - David Berg)
Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
The sweeter sound of woman's praise. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all (Quote by - Johann Lavater)
Praise the bridge that carried you over. (Quote by - George Colman)
here are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Solid pudding against empty praise. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. (Quote by - Seneca)
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. (Quote by - Jess Lair)
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
He who praises everybody, praises nobody. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Where there is no difficulty there is no praise. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
With faint praises one another damn. (Quote by - William Wycherley)
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. (Quote by - Walter Landor)
It's all very well Eminem going on about Detroit. You have to be a bit braver to go around singing the praises of Lowestoft! (Quote by - Justin Hawkins)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. (Quote by - Charles Fillmore)
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (Quote by - John Wooden )
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship (Quote by - Lord Byron)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
Friends may be admonished privately, but praise them openly (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
One should use praise to recognize what one is not. (Quote by - Elias Canetti)
Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- From those who spoke her praise. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face. (Quote by - Welch Proverb)
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. (Quote by - Rockwell Kent)
As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
Virtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. (Quote by - Nagarjuna)
Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd, For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. (Quote by - Wilfred Grenfell)
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. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. (Quote by - Mary Sarton)
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. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. (Quote by - William Cowper)
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
