Famous Quotes & Sayings

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise.

Charles Fillmore

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking; if your own tongue must praise you

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Antoine Rivarol

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Hannah More

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

He's very modest, and he doesn't like to take praise. He would rather do it and have somebody else get the credit.

Some things are better praised by silence than by remark

Ben Jonson

There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.

Muqtada al Sadr

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

George Herbert

True praise rootes and spreedes.

George Herbert

Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]

Jeremy Renner

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Fred Hammond

The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

Jim Calhoun

Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'

Theodore Roosevelt

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

Lucinda Williams

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Michel de Montaigne

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.