Quotes About Praise

Her hair was the blackest I ever saw. Her eyes matched her hair. Her nose was not quite large enough, I admit. Her mouth and chin were (to quote Mr. Franklin) morsels for the gods; and her complexion (on the same undeniable authority) was as warm as the sun itself, with this great advantage over the sun, that it was always in nice order to look at.

Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

You're the elephant's eyebrows, doll.' He said.

Let's look at one such creative counterpart described many years ago in the book of Proverbs. There are many outstanding, godly women mentioned throughout the Bible, but this woman received special praise: Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all (Proverbs 31:29). Who was this woman who did more than Deborah, the military adviser, or Ruth, the woman of constancy, or Esther, the queen who risked her life for her people? She was a wife and mother like you and me!

God wants each of us to praise Him for His workmanship in creating us.

excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy

Once, when she'd taken the initiative to rub down the window casings with ammonia, Jim had even complimented her. She'd beamed at him, married one year, already eight months pregnant and as eager as a lapdog for his sparing praise. Later, Lieutenant Difford had explained to her how ammonia was one of the few substances that rid surfaces of fingerprints.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Glory, glory, hallelujah! His soul is marching on!

Learn this, as we pass through the portico: Fear nothing; there is nothing you can know! And by these terraces and steps that gleam Wintry, although the summer night is hot, This—what we seek is never what we find! Life is a dream, like love; and from the dream If we may wake, we never find it what We would; for the wisdom of a mightier mind Leads us in its own ways To a perfected praise.