Quotes About Praise

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.