Quotes About Commendation

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements upon them to abound therein more and more.

Oh, yes!" said Arianna. "You're really good! One of the best.

The day this person left our organization is considered an annual holiday!" [quote from author's and his colleague's national study with over 400 participants in the research]

I think that in life you must have a final person who praises you.

When Pharaohís officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.

For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

This is why the ancients were commended.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.