Quotes About Praise

my mother fished for compliments this way, saying something negative so that someone would raise her up by contradicting her with just the opposite.

It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.

The two duties are to lament or praise.

Is there a wisdom in objects? Few objects praise the Lord.

Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

People loving my performances give me a kick.

I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

How might the Holy Spirit be tapping on your heart today, prompting you to praise God, do good, and share life? Your very presence and prayerful attitude can be a magnet that draws other souls to you and points them straight toward him.

Women enjoy doing things they excel at, praise guarantees repeat performances, every repeat performance is more practice for the woman, which guarantees the next man even better head. Given how long I've been at this, and on how many continents, I'm pretty sure I've single-handedly improved the quality of head around the world.

It may be that when the angels go about their task of praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart and that then too our dear Lord listens with special pleasure.

Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.

What an astonishing thing, that her praise filled his heart.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The perseverance of the saints is not primarily a theoretical problem but a confession of faith ... a song of praise to God's faithfulness and grace.

Man, in and by the salvation of God, is delivered from the tenacity of the egocentric and commences to sing of the glory of God. It is this salvation that opens doors and windows toward God's handiwork.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.