Praise Quotes

Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

A little praise goes a great ways.

She is loveliness itself.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Blame is safer than praise

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

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

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

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

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

Praise little, dispraise less.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.][Lat., Laetus sumLaudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

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

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.