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I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.
False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
It is always positive when you get a lot of praise, but you should handle it the right way.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.