Quotes About Praise

11. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

How can you sing of Amazing Grace? How can you sing prayerfully of heaven and earth and all God's wonders without using your hands?

So what was still and dark wakes up, Becomes intelligent, moves, names Itself by hunger and by kind, Walks, swims, flies, cries, calls, speaks, or sings. We all are praising, praying to The light we are, but cannot know.

Being also a poet, he put Francis Bacon into doggerel: You glorify Nature and meditate on her; Why not domesticate her and regulate her? You obey Nature and sing her praise; Why not control her course and use it?

Praise is the practice of Art.

Everything's fit to be worshipped.

He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me.

Action triggers simply have to be specific enough and visible enough to interrupt people's normal stream of consciousness. A trigger to "praise your employees when they do something great" is too vague to be useful.

growth mindset compliment praises effort rather than natural skill:

We should make an effort to praise ingenious solutions to customers' problems.

Now, for the first time, he looked at me with respect, the way one might gaze at an equal. It made me glow with satisfaction. At the same time, though, I was saddened. What I'd taken as admiration all these years had really been a kind of indulgence, the way one might praise a child for her childish achievements.

Just think of the acclaim! The feelings of satisfaction! The vastly increased dating opportunities!

Yâdâh is not constrained to a particular time in history. Instead, the people of God will yâdâh for all eternity. Forever and ever.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.