Quotes About Praise

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Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.

Awards are lovely and always welcome.

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.

I love positivity. I'm always saying, 'Well done' - maybe too often, in fact.

Personally, I can handle criticism, especially when it is deserved, and it's because my dad never, ever said 'Well done' to me. He did it on purpose so that I kept my feet on the ground.

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say 'Well done.'

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

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

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

False praise is worse than no praise.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.