Don't just praise a guy's achievements. Praise the personality traits that made them possible.

I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

I don't see why people can't praise when they see something done well - even if it is by a woman.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

I got a lot of praise and attention post 'Kai Po Che' but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

The recognition and praise from Guardiola, a coach so important to world football, is spectacular.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

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

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.

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

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

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