Quotes About Praise

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Worship is an attitude expressed

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This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands. --Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical

Can't say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.

No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gauds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. The present eye praises the present object.

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!

Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.