Quotes About Praise

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Everyone loves winners. You look for things to praise with those you believe in.

It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work... Do the best you can through these years, but whatever else you do, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones.

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.

I suspect God is more glorified in a humble room of earnest worshipers than a massive production designed to sound "relevant" to the listeners but no longer relevant to God. When the worship of God turns into a "worship experience," we have derailed as the body of Christ.

In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors her and she shoots him, it is regarded as justifiable and she is praised for her bravery.

We're paying him an awful lot of money to tell us we're wonderful. And then, as if another voice had interposed itself, Nice work if you can get it.

That's my girl!" Xander bellowed. "Woman," Max corrected. "That's my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Her Grace is all she has - And that, so least displays - One Art to recognize, must be, Another Art, to praise.

I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

No, she's marvellous,' said Lucy-Ann, and Tassie glowed with pleasure.

Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.