#Praise Quotes

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

“Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.”

“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”

“Good things should be praised.”

“Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?”

“How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

“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.”

“'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.”

“Blame is safer than praise”

“A little praise goes a great ways.”

“One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.”

“To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.”

“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 !”

“Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.”

“Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.”

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

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

“I will praise any man that will praise me.”

“Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.”

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

“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.”

“Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.”

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

“If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.”

“[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.”

“What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.”

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

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

“The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.”

“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”

“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”

“Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

“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.”

“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”

“Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!”

“I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

“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.”

“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”

“Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.”

“Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.”

“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”

“We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.”

“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.”

“Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by 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.”