Quotes About Praise

And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. COLOSSIANS 3:15

It's a date, isn't it, she realized. Praise to the Virgin Scribe, I have a date! Trez laughed, the sound a rumble in his broad chest. You'd better believe you do. And I'ma treat you like a queen. My queen. ~Trez 'The Shadows' page 205

Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsOf those white elders; but, escaping,Left only Death's ironic scraping.Now, in its immortality, it playsOn the clear viol of her memory,And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

Thoughts of praise and of thanksgiving spontaneously arise, as well as questions and petitions and thoughts of friends and their needs, mingled with trusting confessions of failure and simple promises to follow in the future only what he would have us do.

Man was created to praise, revere, and serve God in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next.

The birds on the branches, the lilies in the field, the deer in the forest, the fishes in the sea, countless hosts of happy men, exultantly proclaim: God is love. But underneath all these sopranos, supporting them as it were, as the bass part does, is audible the de profundis which issues from the sacrificed one: God is love.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

Cats, like men, are flatterers.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

It is attention, really, that is the big resource; it is being acknowledged. It is being told you did a great job.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

Psalm 42:11 (NIV): "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

It is my fifty-fifth year of ministry and forty-fifth of labor in America. . . . But whether health, life, or death, good is the will of the Lord: I will trust Him; yea, and will praise Him; He is the strength of my heart and my portion forever—Glory! Glory! Glory!"16

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.

His observation was astute and correct: occasions on which he praised a performance were likely to be followed by a disappointing performance, and punishments were typically followed by an improvement. But the inference he had drawn about the efficacy of reward and punishment was completely off the mark.

His observation was astute and correct: occasions on which he praised a performance were likely to be followed by a disappointing performance, and punishments were typically followed by an improvement. But the inference he had drawn about the efficacy of reward and punishment was completely off the mark. What he had observed is known as regression to the mean, which in that case was due to random fluctuations in the quality of performance.

But the cadet was probably just lucky on that particular attempt and therefore likely to deteriorate regardless of whether or not he was praised. Similarly, the instructor would shout into a cadet's earphones only when the cadet's performance was unusually bad and therefore likely to improve regardless of what the instructor did. The instructor had attached a causal interpretation to the inevitable fluctuations of a random process.