Quotes About Praise

I ain't gonna win no Oscars.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

Our generation has been described as a golden generation. I hate that term.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!

I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state.

Admirers who sought to praise him in heroic terms found themselves reduced to hailing his baldness: "his forehead gleams like silver."22

Achievement was worth of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself

Compliments make you weak because they can trick you into thinking you've finished your journey when the heels of your boots aren't even worn down yet. Praise is a song to the ears but an enemy of improvement.

corrompemos a unção de Deus quando dizemos: "Aquela foi uma boa pregação!" ou "Aquele louvor estava realmente muito bom!" e damos ao homem a glória e a atenção devidas a Deus - ou então, buscamos a glória e a atenção vindas de homens.

I'm quick enough to criticize and lecture the poor man. Praise should be just as quick to come when the right course is chosen.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

In our culture we are taught that hopes are good. But really our hopes are often based on fears. Take a moment and think about your greatest hope. What do you really long for? Then think about your greatest fear. Aren't they the opposite sides of the same coin, both of which generate tension? I hope for love, and I fear loneliness. I hope for success, and I fear poverty. I hope for praise, and I fear criticism.

You're like a monkey," Swordtail panted, catching up to her when she stopped to wait for them. "I mean — in a good way — like a — very fast — jumps — good jumps — not foodishly — I mean, not in a dinner way — just, so fast." He wheezed to a stop.

You're brilliant," said Snowflake.

Your Majesty is the wisest of all dragons," said Kidney Breath.

True humility doesn't deny abilities but rather acknowledges God as the source of these gifts, for which we can't take credit.

The wrath of men shall praise you, says the Bible (Psalm 76:10 ESV), and the fear of the Lord is to hate evil (Proverbs 8:13). Right now, Christian Nice Guys hate only what disrupts comfort.

Thus, BAD. The United States especially overflows with it because of all countries it is the most addicted to self-praise and complacency - even more than France.

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

When people praise us, we should always keep a close eye on how we behave

in meditation we can notice how emotions and moods are connected with having lost or gained something, having been praised or blamed, and so forth. We can notice how what begins as a simple thought, a simple quality of energy, quickly blossoms into full-blown pleasure and pain.