Quotes About Praise

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

Nor were the Arabs content with praising the lighthouse: they even looked at it. "El Manarah," as they called it, gave the name to, and became the model for, the minaret, and one can still find minarets in Egypt that exactly reproduce the design of Sostratus—the bottom story square, second octagonal, third round.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

God is not the source of any form of worship that does not exalt and lift up the name of Jesus!

Okay, Buzzkill, this is a win. You celebrate wins. You don't shit on them.

There is a God who is there, and who is personal, and who accepts art (music) as a praise to Himself, as worship, when given to Him in this sincere way- without being strained through the 'strainer' of human acceptance. If we follow the urging of God, we would not be embarrassed to fulfill our urge to create(make music) for God's ears alone. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee.

And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Michael row the boat ashore,Hallelujah!

The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

Rise and shine and give God the gloryFor the year of Jubilee.