Praise Quotes

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.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

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.

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.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Their silence is praise enough.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

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.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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.