Quotes About Praise

People will jump through hoops if you just make them feel like a god.

You'd have to say his bad point was not having any bad points. Don't tell him I said so.

Arma virumque cano......... *Literally: I sing of arms and man. __I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi.

And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminded one of a cat watching birds, when he had found the word, and her husband said, Poor old Augustus--he's a true poet, which was high praise from her husband.

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.

How resilient I am; and how fatalistic now; and how little I mind and how much; and how good my novel is; and how tired I am this morning; and how I like praise; and how full of ideas I am; and Tom and Stephen came to tea, and Ray and William dine; and I forgot to describe my interesting talk with Nessa about my criticizing her children; and I left out—I forget what.

What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself — a voice answering a voice.

The evening is the time to praise the day

Vagyst?-geriausias komplimentas,kok? galima pasakyti daiktui.

I will create a brand new god and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope.

Modern medicine, as everyone knows by now, can be spectacularly successful and woefully inadequate. It alternately inspires praise and condemnation.

Face the facts. If you do not begin to pray, you will not be any further along with the Lord next year than you are right now. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change. So what will it be: business as usual or are you ready to take your next step with God? Jesus is waiting for you to pray, "Lord, make my temple a house of purity, prayer, power and perfected praise for Thy glory." He is ready to begin that divine progression in your temple right now. Are you?

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

But there is a kind of poem you can call a Hawkins poem as there is a kind of chair you can call a Hawkins chair, and the object of both is to get praise, which is the confidence in yourself that you get from people whom you have succeeded in pleasing when you haven't any confidence in yourself.

Distinguish between your child and his behavior. Always acknowledge behavior that you want to reinforce - not the child for doing what he did. For example, rather than saying "What a good boy for dressing yourself!", say "Hey that's good dressing!

God is my strength and my fortress. I will rejoice in God my Savior.