quotes about Praise
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
-- Abraham Cowley -
So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
-- Al-Ghazali -
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No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.
-- Albert Payson TerhuneSource : Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated”, p.111, Read Books Ltd
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
-- Alex HaleySource : "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.
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As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
-- Alexander AlekhineSource : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
-- Alexander Pope -
I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.
-- Alice Cooper -
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All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates
-- Amit Abraham -
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
-- Aristotle -
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
-- Aristotle -
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
-- Arthur Helps -
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
-- Augustus Hare -
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
-- Bernard Crick -
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
-- Bill Johnson -
It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
-- Billy Rose -
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Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.
-- Bob Burg -
Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.
-- Brian Houston -
Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
-- C. S. Lewis -
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.
-- Callie KhouriSource : "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2008.
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Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.
-- Carl Lentz -
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachSource : "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
-- Carol S. Dweck -
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
-- Catherine the Great -
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?
-- Cato the Elder -
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
-- Charles Churchill -
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
-- Charles Churchill -
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Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.
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You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.
-- Chin-Ning ChuSource : Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.182, Hachette UK
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
-- Chinua AchebeSource : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 08, 2014
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Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
-- Chris Brogan -
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
-- Chris Brogan -
Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.
-- Chris Shiflett -
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great
-- Chris Van AllsburgSource : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Jumanji, polarexpress.com. 1982.
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I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
-- Chuck Berry -
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.
-- Clarice Lispector -
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How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?
-- Conrad Aiken -
Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.
-- Dale Carnegie -
It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
-- Dan S Kennedy -
Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
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Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.
-- Doris GrumbachSource : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.22, Open Road Media
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Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.
-- Dorothy Day -
Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
-- Edgar FawcettSource : Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
-- Edith Sitwell -
There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
-- Edmund MorrisSource : "A chat about the book 'Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 5, 1999.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
-- El Greco -
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
-- Eli WallachSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
-- Elias Canetti -
The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.
-- Elisabeth MarburySource : Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
-- Eliza LeslieSource : Eliza Leslie (1853). “The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies”, p.247
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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
-- Ellie GouldingSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
-- Eric Hoffer -
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.
-- Ethel Waters -
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
-- Fannie Lou Hamer -
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
-- Francis Chan -
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You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!
-- Francis of Assisi -
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Usually we praise only to be praised.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.
-- Frederick Locker-LampsonSource : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1895). “My Confidences: An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to My Descendants”
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
-- Gavin Rossdale -
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
-- George Crabbe -
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.
-- George Farquhar -
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Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
-- George Horace LorimerSource : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.77, Lulu.com
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There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.
-- George Matthew Adams -
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
-- George Orwell -
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”
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