Praise Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

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.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

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.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

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

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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.

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

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

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