Quotes About Praise

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

You get terribly depressed if they're bad for you and if they're good then you start playing your reviews, emphasizing those things that the reviewer likes.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

I think Hillary Clinton is terrific.

When you play good and people say that you have been terrific and you have been playing good football, that's something that stays and builds you and your confidence.

It's really great to have Harry Reid or whomever come say, 'Oh you're terrific.'

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. (Ps. 50:15)

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

"And everybody praised the duke,Who this great fight did win.""But what good came of it at last?"Quoth little Peterkin."Why, that I cannot tell," said he;"But 'twas a famous victory."

Praise offered in the night bears fruit in the day.

free will is an illusion, brought to us by evolution. All the things we are commonly blamed or praised for—ranging from murder to theft to Darwin's eminently Victorian politeness—are the result not of choices made by some immaterial "I" but of physical necessity. "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything," Darwin wrote in his notes. "[N]or ought one to blame others.