Quotes About Praise

Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had—or hadn't done—to merit it.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

You're too cute, Katinka, for a historian.

Minor wants desperately to know that he is being helpful. He wants to feel involved. He wants, but knows he can never demand, that praise be showered on him. He wants respectability, and he wants those in the asylum to know that he is special, different from others in their cells. Though

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised." Sir

Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

It's up and down, and people are going to love things you do, people are going to hate things you do.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.