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Quotes About Praise

You did just splendidly, Anne," puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
~ L.M. Montgomery
don't you be too sure your name won't ever be written up. Charlie Sloane is DEAD GONE on you. He told his mother — his MOTHER, mind you — that you were the smartest girl in school. That's better than being good looking." "No, it isn't," said Anne, feminine to the core. "I'd rather be pretty than clever.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Heaping praise upon the three boys who grew up all bright and ambitious, who earned scholarships to good colleges. Commending them for leaving the Midwest. Yet everyone was thankful when the oldest, Dagou Chao, returned to Haven.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.
~ Larry Crabb
She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.
~ Lauraine Snelling
Holmes, you're a genius. So I have been told.
~ Laurie R. King
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
~ Thales
When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.
~ Sigmund Freud
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
~ Adrian Desmond
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
~ Adolf von Baeyer
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
~ Alfred Nobel
Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.
~ Olaf Stapledon
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ Og Mandino
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
~ Jay-Z
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
~ Nizar Qabbani
In its present form the Bible is the only object in the world which is not in need of either praise or sanctification. In its present form the Bible is the only point in the world from which God will never depart. This is the book to which Israel deferred; we must tremble to tamper with it.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Everybody likes compliment.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Children often experience praise of a brother or sister as a put-down of themselves. They automatically translate, 'Your brother is so considerate' into 'Mom thinks I'm not.' It's a good idea to save our enthusiastic comments for the ear of the deserving child.
~ Adele Faber
He's no Ciro Lazzari. Honey, in the sweepstakes of the acquisition of handsome men, you got the golden ticket. The man you married is one in a million. But you know that.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Nilai cela sering dianggap sebagai kemasyhuran.
~ Aesop
Does what is praised becomes better? Does an emerald become worse if it isn't praised? And what a gold, ivory, a flower or a little plant?
~ Alain de Botton
if we are prone to burst into tears after only a few harsh words about our character or achievements, it may be because the approval of others forms an essential part of our capacity to believe that we are right.
~ Alain de Botton