Praise Quotes - page 29

I think it a greater theft to Rob the dead of their Praise, then the Living of their Money. (Edward Ravenscroft)
So what, then, is the use of art - our art, Black art? Black art must expose the enemy, praise the people and support the revolution.... We do not need pictures of oranges in a bowl or trees standing innocently in the midst of a wasteland. If we must paint oranges and trees, let our guerrillas be eating those oranges for strength and using those trees for cover. View quote
Maulana Karenga
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. View quote
George Whitefield
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... View quote
Maurice Sendak
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Make thine eyes wide and give God wondering thanks That grace like ours is given thee - thou shalt bear Part of our praise for ever. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
My attendants are Honour and Praise, Renown and Glory with joyful countenance, and Victory with snow-white wings like mine. View quote
Silius Italicus
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! View quote
Francis Scott Key
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. View quote
Richard Rohr
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. View quote
John Gay
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. View quote
Hanif Kureishi
Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If his "magna imago" could return to earth, he would be puzzled at some of our experiments in empire, and might well complain that the imperfections of his work were taken as its virtues, and that so many truths had gone silently out of mind. He had prided himself on having given the world peace, and he would be amazed by the loud praise of war as a natural and wholesome concomitant of a nation's life. View quote
John Buchan
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. View quote
Richard Steele
The lucky man is honored ... But earnest striving wins no praise at all. View quote
Theognis of Megara
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that he is even infinitely above it. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When they ardently desire of Victory, for the Sake of the Praise attending it, they will begin to feel the want, and be sensible of the use of the Use of Logic, or the Art of Reasoning to discover Truth, and of Arguing to defend it, and convince adversaries. View quote
Benjamin Franklin