Praised Quotes

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

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.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

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.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

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.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.