Quotes About Praise

A person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people. —Romans 2:29

Unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done. —Psalm 62:12

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.

I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em.

O Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being the freshest modern instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,–that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?

No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

They said 'the SEC this, the SEC that.' I said, 'You talk like all 14 teams are this, that and the other thing.' I said, 'You have to give credit to the first one or two that have won the national championship, but don't act like they're all doing that.'

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Boman Irani is a wonderful human being and a terrific actor.

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

I've had people only tell me wonderful things about how well I've brought up my children, and how amazing my kids have turned out.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important.