Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

George Saunders

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

George Herbert

Lord! who hath praise enough?

Jim Calhoun

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

Fred Hammond

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

Myles Munroe

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Muqtada al Sadr

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

George Herbert

True praise rootes and spreedes.

George Herbert

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Khalil Gibran

The envier praises me unknowingly.

Mahatma Gandhi

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

Joan Rivers

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Ellie Goulding

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

Paul Kagame

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Jeremy Renner

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Lucinda Williams

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

Ovid

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michel de Montaigne

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.