Praise Quotes

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

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.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

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.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

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.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

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.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

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.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.