Quotes About Praise

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

When people are so nice about you, you get emotional and cry. But we never take it for granted.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.

My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

People come up and say very nice things about my work, like, 'You were great in 'Blood Diamond!'

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

Nick Hornby's a genius.

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

The pattern of praise and punishment is a familiar one throughout history: those who line up in the service of the state are typically praised by the general intellectual community, and those who refuse to line up in service of the state are punished.

it is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies: a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously.

All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can't get either credit or blame. Hence if God destroyed all freedom, He would be destroying all possibility to love, praise, and worship Him – to say nothing of destroying all possibility of our enjoying His or other people's love, praise, and sacrifice on our behalf.

Most things that declare the glory of God can be perverted to worship.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.

praising God is just such a safe thing to do. You don't even have to give it any thought.

The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.