Quotes About Commendation

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise.

Oh, and by the way, you did good, kid.

Praise and esteem bring about skill where skill deserves comendation. When wisdom is adorned with praise it blossoms in profusion.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.

Question: But why do people content themselves with a show of godliness? Answer: This helps to keep up their fame. Men are ambitious of credit, and wish to gain repute in the world, therefore they will dress themselves in the garb and mode of religion, so that others may write them down for saints. But alas, what is one the better for having others commend him—and his conscience condemn him? What good will it do a man when he is in hell—that others think he has gone to heaven?

When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.

When you do good work, people will notice you.

What! are you never to hear yourself praised! Then you must be no friend of mine; for those who will accept of my love and esteem, must submit to my open commendation.

Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such a commendation to think of her as he chose.

Sir John's confidence in his own judgment rose with this animated praise, and he set off directly for the cottage to tell the Miss Dashwoods of the Miss Steeles' arrival, and to assure them of their being the sweetest girls in the world. From such commendation as this, however, there was not much to be learned; Elinor well knew that the sweetest girls in the world were to be met with in every part of England, under every possible variation of form, face, temper and understanding.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

From the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard came a note from Professor F. W. Putnam, rapturous in his commendation of "your great work.

Charles Schwab put it, 'hearty in their approbation and lavish in their praise.

the praise you offer must be genuine and heartfelt

Tidak ada yang lebih dihargai oleh penulis daripada pujian. Robert Langdon

Of all the ways we can create moments of pride for others, the simplest is to offer them recognition.

In our corrupt times, the virtue of a Pontiff is commended when he does not surpass the wickedness of other men. —Francesco Guicciardini, History of Italy, 1561

Bill Aalto, the working-class Finnish-American boy from the Bronx, the tough, intelligent, street-wise kid who became a guerrilla captain and came out of Spain with the highest commendation of any awarded to a Lincoln brigader.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.