Quotes About Praise

if people left our services saying, "What an awesome choir" or "That's a great church," then we have failed in our mission. No, the only thing I want said is, "What an awesome God!" I

Parents weren't supposed to praise their children, she knew this—it would only invite disaster.

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

If you leave the schoolhouse when midday is called and go roaming in the streets, all will scold you in the end. When an official sends you with a message, Tell it as he told it, Don't omit, don't add to it. He who neglects to praise, his name will not endure ; he who is skilled in all his conduct, from him nothing is hidden, he is not 'opposed anywhere.

Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.

Everything is equally endowed with great merit, so that it is no longer an honor to be lauded.

Dor. So you think, Lysidas, that all the wit and beauty are to be found in serious poems, and that comic pieces are trifles which deserve no praise? Ur. I certainly do not think so. Tragedy no doubt is very fine when it is well written; but comedy has also its charms, and I believe that one is no less difficult than the other.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

All knowledge is only accumulations of previous generations. I don't think an individual deserves all the praise for knowing something beautiful.

Be careful of whom you praise. Learn from the greatest minds. Because your thoughts can't exceed your own desires.

History always discriminates against half-wise men and praises only those who have achieved greatness.

People are praised for predicting their date of death. But no one has ever predicted their date of birth.

Silence does not need to be praised, as it will disturb it or add unnecessary noise.

Since history is just an abstract word, and the land the concrete part, the credit will be given to the land.

Socialism praise and admire the usage, or application of technology and the implementation of scientific approach before anything else.

Some of you only take credit for good results, but run away when misfortunes show up.

The world may not appreciate my works. But the angels, pure and wicked, praise them daily and turn them into universal poems.

Those who praise free education and scientific approaches are the true socialists at heart, despite many who are hating it out of their ignorance or fanaticism.

Those who seek respect without deserving it end up surrounding themselves with flatterers, or people who claim to respect you when they don't.

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of that creation for its Creator into love, speech, and conscious obedience.

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy.

The non-Jewish nations were supposed to look at Israel and praise Israel's God. Instead, they looked at Israel and blasphemed his name. The vocation had turned sour.