Quotes About Praise

I regard Clarissa and In Search of Lost Time as the two most eminent of all novels, surpassing even Tolstoy and Dickens.

Only a writer with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

There was no finer young man, said the people of Maycomb, than Henry Clinton. Jean Louise agreed.

There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

One day Surpresa was on his way to minister, and his car broke down. He walked eight hours in the rain, mile after mile, carrying a tire. He just sang the whole time, praising Jesus.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Yes, I know better; God created man so that he might admire the splendour of the world. Every author, be he never so great, wants his work to be praised.

I was fortunate to have many teachers who encouraged me - one of the first was Dianne Derrick, my 5th grade teacher at Woodbury Elementary. She challenged us to write creatively and praised my work, but most importantly, she treated writing like it was important.

As for being the best goalkeeper in the world, it's been written occasionally, but I'd never say it myself.

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

Most gospel music is very vertical. And there's nothing wrong with that - there's nothing wrong with, you know, 'God, we praise you,' and 'hallelujah.' Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people's everyday life.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

It's really refreshing to get these types of moments when people can say, 'Yeah, you're one of the best.'

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

Don't just praise a guy's achievements. Praise the personality traits that made them possible.

I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn't translate to money in the bank.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Teachers may think of caring as unconditional praise, or as quickly incorporating cultural components into the curriculum, or even as lowering standards. On the contrary, others have argued, an "ethic of care" means a combination of respect, admiration, and rigorous standards.