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Quotes About Praise

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.
~ Virgil
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
~ William Shakespeare
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
~ Annie Barrows
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?
~ Benjamin Franklin
Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.
~ Maurice Druon
God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.
~ Max Lucado
If Jesus heals you instantly, praise him. If you are still waiting for healing, trust him. Your suffering is your sermon.
~ Max Lucado
While we are shaking heads in disbelief, they are lifting hands in worship. While we are mourning at a grave, they are marveling at heaven. While we are questioning God, they are praising God.
~ Max Lucado
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless (Psalm 84:11).
~ Max Lucado
Begin with God. Celebrate God's goodness. "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!" (Phil. 4:4).
~ Max Lucado
Turn your attention away from the problem, and for a few minutes celebrate God. It does you no good to obsess yourself with your trouble. The more you stare at it, the bigger it grows. Yet the more you look to God, the quicker the problem is reduced to its proper size. This was the strategy of the psalmist.
~ Max Lucado
Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; talk of all His wondrous works! 1 Chronicles 16:8–9
~ Max Lucado
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him. (Ps. 42:5 NIV)4
~ Max Lucado
Celebrate God's goodness. "Rejoice in the Lord always" (v. 4). Ask God for help. "Let your requests be made known to God" (v. 6). Leave your concerns with him. "With thanksgiving…" (v. 6). Meditate on good things. "Think about the things that are good and worthy of praise" (v. 8 NCV). Celebrate. Ask. Leave. Meditate. C.A.L.M.
~ Max Lucado
Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we've never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence of a problem as the absence of God and scoot!
~ Max Lucado
I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. [ Psalm 139:14 NCV ]
~ Max Lucado
The LORD is good. His love is forever, and his loyalty goes on and on. Psalm 100:5
~ Max Lucado
14He brought them out of their gloom and darkness and broke their chains. 15Let them give thanks to the LORD for his love and for the miracles he does
~ Max Lucado
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
~ May Sarton
My mother complimented me on my decision and said I would do wonders.
~ Maya Angelou
Flattery will get you everywhere
~ Maya Banks
Meg Cabot is the best author ever
~ Meg Cabot
We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Power in praise or mountain that move is a nice book bec not only reading it after you read when you put it into practice thenvyou would experience what the author say.
~ Merlin Carothers