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Quotes About Commendation

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
~ Peter Gabriel
Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.
~ Esi Edugyan
Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
~ Gloria Steinem
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
and, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour.
~ William Shakespeare
Colonel Robert Sink, commanding officer of the 506th PIR, ordered me to prepare a written summary of the battle since no senior officer witnessed the engagement. I purposely avoided the use of the first personal pronoun 'I' because I wanted each soldier to receive credit for what he had done. Later Sink issued a citation to the 1st Platoon that shouldered the principal burden of the fight.
~ Unknown
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
~ Lily Rabe
Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.
~ Mike Aquilina
I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here.
~ Shaun Alexander
There is a lot of appreciation for Shahbaz Sharif.
~ Nawaz Sharif
Ah. Ah! A man of modesty, either so false that it may be true or so true that it seems entirely false. I can see why Bayard speaks so well of you, sir.
~ Jim Butcher
Excellent is prasie worthy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
~ Voltaire
Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.
~ Philip Roth
The work praises the man.
~ Irish proverb
Criticized for including humor in a sermon, Charles Spurgeon, eye twinkling, said: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me." Later
~ J. Oswald Sanders
I've realised that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.
~ Louise Penny
I've realized that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.
~ Louise Penny
he told them, that they was bound to keep me from preaching; and that if I did preach, their bonds would be forfeited.  To which I answered, that then I should break them; for I should not leave speaking the Word of God: even to counsel, comfort, exhort, and teach the people among whom I came; and I thought this to be a work that had no hurt in it: but was rather worthy of commendation, than blame.
~ John Bunyan
I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.
~ Michael Keaton
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
~ Lily Rabe
I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
~ Jerry Bridges