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Quotes About Praise

I would like to acknowledge my Father in heaven, Who is the LORD God Almighty! The Most High God! The Great I Am! All praise, honor, and glory unto Him, And His beloved Son, the LORD Jesus Christ; Who is my Savior, my Redeemer, and my Friend! And it is only because of Him, That I am alive and living! Praise His holy name, Forever and ever! Amen
~ C. Read
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~ C. S. Lewis
Do you want to sing and play psalms? Then not only must your voice sing God's praises but your actions must keep in tune with your voice.
~ Calvin R. Stapert
Spirit filling" does not come as the result of singing. Rather, "Spirit filling" comes first; singing is the response.
~ Calvin R. Stapert
With a truly tragic delusion," Carl Jung noted, "these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.
~ Carl Jung
The concept of appropriate supervision can be stated in six words: praise for performance—correction for errors.
~ Gavin de Becker
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
~ Gelett Burgess
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
~ Gena Showalter
Then I thought to myself: "If I merely praise the Buddha-Vehicle, Beings sunk in suffering Will not be able to believe this Dharma. "And by rejecting the Dharma through unbelief They will fall into the three evil paths. It would be better not to teach the Dharma And quickly enter nirvana.
~ Gene Reeves
Myn be the travaille, and thyn be the glorie!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Advance praise for BAD MEDICINE by Geoffrey M. Cooper Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 3
~ Geoffrey M. Cooper
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Praise the Lord and get the fireballs ready.
~ Ilona Andrews
As a matter of fact, no other language in the world has received such praise as the Lithuanian language. The garlands of high honour have been taken to Lithuanian people for inventing, elaborating, and introducing the most highly developed human speech with its beautiful and clear phonology. Moreover, according to comparative philology, the Lithuanian language is best qualified to represent the primitive Aryan civilization and culture.
~ Immanuel Kant
He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.
~ Isaac Asimov
The latter was in praise of the virtuous wife, rarer than a pearl.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv
~ Isabella Leitner
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
~ George Glass
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
~ Pietro Aretino
Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
~ J. K. Galbraith
When someone does something well, applaud I You will make two people happy.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
~ George Matthew Adams
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
~ Joseph Farrell