Quotes About Praise

It's obviously flattering when somebody likes something one is doing. But at the same time, I get embarrassed about it. It's the 'I'm not worthy syndrome.'

I don't want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, 'Wow, you've done a great job.'

I was quite shy. I found my way, I suppose, with food. It's a confidence builder. How else in life do you get that opportunity for someone to say to you, 'Wow, that's really great'? You put food in front of someone and, 'Ahhh, I really enjoyed that!' It's a lift.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

For an extensive and fascinating discussion of the use and pitfalls of rewards, see Edward Deci, Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (New York: Penguin, 1996); Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999); Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (New York: Riverhead, 2009).

He was shown the smallness and tinsel emptiness of the little Earth gods, with their petty, human interests and connections - their hatreds, rages, loves and vanities; their craving for praise and sacrifice, and their demands for faiths contrary to reason and nature.

Years later, a Jackson partisan (who wasn't at Knoxville) said Jackson had praised the melodiousness of "Tennessee" as a word that had "as sweet a flavor on the tongue as hot corn-cakes and honey.

Praise someone ones and they are yours forever.

Nothing could appear, the word "appearance" would make no sense, if recipients of appearances did not exist—living creatures able to acknowledge, recognize, and react to—in flight or desire, approval or disapproval, blame or praise—what is not merely there but appears to them and is meant for their perception.

It is, of course, always nice to be praised. But this is really not the point, it's ever so much nicer to be understood.

Toda virtud comienza con el cumplido que se le hace, mediante el cual se expresa la satisfacción por ella.

It is not because things are good that we are to thank the Lord, but because He is good.

My dad was a tough man. I think that would be putting it mildly. Short on praise, short on communications. Long on leading by example. Lots of integrity, and lots of passion for things. But he was a tough guy.

The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

Don't give a reward for bad behavior.