Praise Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

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.

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

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

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.

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

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.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

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

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.