Quotes About Praise

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.