Quotes About Praise

You know something?" Frank said, after a moment. "You've got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other people do around you.

You're competent enough on the trail." Don't slay me with admiration.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

If you want your children to have a reason to sing on Sunday, give them a glorious God. If you want your children to have a reason not to sin on Monday, give them a glorious God.

My mother] would tell me not to doubt God's understanding of His people, "Empty words and long praises do not impress Him. Show Him your faith by deeds, otherwise why should He believe you?

You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

The recognition and praise from Guardiola, a coach so important to world football, is spectacular.

I think that's a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they're in constant prayer with God - so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.