Quotes About Praise

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Old men need applause too.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.