Quotes About Praise

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond whatever my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. The Lord's name be praised! and may I be ever thankful for it.

I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

If good at times springs out of evil, to God's almighty dispensation, not to evil, be the praise. He makes man's villainy to serve Him: that is His perquisite. But let no man believe that he serves God by villainy. The kiss of Judas brought Our Blessed Lord to the Cross and, thus, salvation to mankind, yet Judas hanged himself.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Your daughter should not be allowed to assemble the mask…but that doesn't mean I don't admire her.

sinä kaunis, sinä riemastuttava tyttö

sinä olet) kaunein kaikista tähdistä

Worship is about God in Christ. I suppose one could argue that if there were no people to do the worshiping, no worship would take place; but scripture paints a different picture. Worship goes on in heaven from the lips of the seraphim (see Isa. 6:2-3), while here on earth—should humans fail to praise—even the stones would cry out (see Luke 19:37-40).

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.