Quotes About Praise

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

He's my man, he was great

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.