Quotes About Praise

it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Já se disse até que o mais alto louvor a Deus reside na negação do ateu, que considera a Criação tão perfeita que dispensa um criador.

Obviously, we prefer to be praised rather than insulted and still more when a woman we love deceives us, what would we not give that it should be otherwise. But the resentment of the affront, the pain of the abandonment would in that event have been worlds we should never have known, the discovery of which, painful as it may be for the man, is precious for the artist. In spite of himself and of themselves, the mischievous and the ungrateful must figure in his work.

praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. And I was well aware, too, that it was not merely a work of art

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

If God was small enough to understand, I reckon He wouldn't be big enough to worship.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

One old colored woman when the shock from heaven's battery struck her, jumped up and exclaimed, "Oh, praise the Lord! I didn't expect it! I didn't expect it!" and ran down the aisle praising the Lord.

little big for her, but it would do. "This is great, Jess. I'm

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

I have read your book and much like it.

If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.