Quotes About Praise

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.

I really don't even know how to take a compliment honestly.

I'm not comfortable with being honored, showered with appreciation. But it's always appreciated.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

I never won any award, ever, except for a Houston Press award, but other than that, I never won an award.

I respect Mark Hughes, and I respect what he has done for me.

I have my faith in God. I was told to be humble before him. Don't boast about what you have done. Don't put credit in your own hands. You have to realize He got you there.

The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate and support and praise – I can operate in sunlight, basically – but I can't deal with angry or tearful women.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.

For a matter of seconds, he felt an immense satisfaction that he could talk of suffering to them now without hypocrisy--it is hard for the sleek and well-fed priest to praise poverty.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

as if she was announcing that she'd just received some distinguished award.

Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.

In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.

Most humbly, my beloved Saviour, I bow myself before thee. I am a worm and no man. I alone deserve to suffer. I alone shrink from suffering. I was with thee in thy days of joy, singing 'Hosanna,' and I wished to make thee King. Now, in thine hour of suffering, I am far from thee.

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.

Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

Worship is transcendent wonder.