Quotes About Praise

he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

It was warm praise and cheered him. What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes

Mums reikia tokio atlygio, kur? mes vertiname, -kalb?jo ji, - kitaip didžiausia šlov? neatneš pasitenkinimo ir laim?s.

Praise and blame are all the same is a fancy way of reminding yourself of the old cliché that you'll never be able to please all the people all the time. Even in a landslide election victory in which a candidate secures 55 percent of the vote, he or she is left with 45 percent of the population that wishes someone else were the winner. Pretty humbling, isn't it?

He did not believe in virtue. Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

panegyrics of a man they had never understood

He would live to see people praised for things that were not worthy of praise, simply because truth was seen to be bad for their feelings.

Once the world at large— or the media, to be more accurate— beatifies you, life is never the same. And because you cannot resist the stoking of your ego, no matter how hard you try, you begin to lose sight of yourself as just another workaday sinner.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Focus our attention on the kingdom you are creating rather than on the one Satan is destroying. Ps 9:1-2 Give thanks and tell his wonderful deeds.

I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself.

The poor misguided soul described me as generous, "a champion for the department and particularly its students"; he went on to say that my disagreeable nature was "at least 50 percent façade" and that "Fitger behaves like more of an ass than he actually is." Janet described these comments as persuasive praise.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Best always to praise rather than criticize.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.