Famous Quotes & Sayings

Those they praise, but they read the others.

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

Jim Calhoun

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

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

Myles Munroe

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

George Herbert

True praise rootes and spreedes.

George Herbert

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

Hannah More

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

John Gay

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

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.

Pythagoras

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

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.

John Podhoretz

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

John Piper

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

John Piper

You can't praise what you don't prize.

Ovid

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

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.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Muqtada al Sadr

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Norm MacDonald

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mahatma Gandhi

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.