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Quotes About Praise

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
~ Charles Mingus
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
~ C. S. Lewis
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
~ Cliff Richard
I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.
~ Elvin Jones
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
~ Joseph Addison
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
~ John Piper
No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
~ Samuel Rutherford
O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.
~ Kenneth Leighton
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
~ Ellie Goulding
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
~ Bertrand Russell
All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
~ William Butler Yeats
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
~ William Wordsworth
This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
~ Bible
Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!
~ Kevin Heath
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
~ William Cecil
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.
~ Rumi
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
~ John Milton
To be worthy of recognition, be humble.
~ Debasish Mridha
Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.
~ Debasish Mridha