Praise Quotes
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.
Gerald R. Ford
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.
Fritz Perls
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
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.
Victoria Wood
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
Taliesin
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Alec Waugh
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
Albert Barnes
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
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.
Thomas Sowell
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
Saskya Pandita
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Robert Martin
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.
Lance Loud