Praise Quotes - page 23

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure. (Laurence Fox)
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. View quote
Martin Van Creveld
Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together. View quote
Mary Ann Mobley
Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it. View quote
Niecy Nash
Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. View quote
Patricia Richardson
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem. View quote
Paul Engle
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise. View quote
Robert Martin
Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark. View quote
Robert W. Service
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do. View quote
Rosalind Wiseman
I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good. View quote
Randy Savage
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. (Stephen Baldwin)
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. View quote
Timothy Noah
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her. View quote
Victoria Wood
Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God. View quote
Tyson Fury
I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Actually we were brought up to ingratitude - a relentless training through which we were taught to find nothing whatever good in ourselves, whether natural or spiritual.. Conquering pride and conceit, they called it, practising humility, self-praise is no praise - all very well...Was pride really crushed by all this snubbing and humiliation? Was it not rather repressed...Worse still, we learnt this way to cultivate the devil's mirror eye of Hans Andersen's Snow Queen, over-vigilant, super-critical sight, sharpened to discover the worm in every bud, even the tiniest plant-louse! For if one practises this sort of discipline on oneself, day and night, it is asking too much - at any rate of a young girl - to judge one's neighbour by another yard-stick. All the time one's lynx-eyed consciousness remained on the alert, quick to pounce on everything negative - in you and in myself...Hans Andersen well knew how near this attitude is to blasphemy. View quote
Ida Friederike Görres
The salt said, look by the sea, Your tears are not enough praise, You will find no comfort here, In the kingdom of bang and blab. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did. The Republican Party leadership does not. The greatest praise I can give Lincoln on this his anniversary is to say he would be ashamed of his party's leadership today. View quote
George Aiken
Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people, the multitude brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha. (Thomas Jefferson)
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is unfortunate for our peace, that unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. Conscience, the only remaining tie, is known to be inadequate in individuals: In large numbers, little is to be expected from it. View quote
James Madison
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. View quote
James Madison