Praise Quotes

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. W...

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For be...

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but a...

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is ...

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathiz...

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful fo...

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising whe...

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising whe...

O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for...

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump...

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must b...

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious new...

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him a...

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the...

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank,...

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly a...

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epi...

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him...

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on so...

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qua...

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not ...

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of ...

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame ...

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; ...

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute somet...

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