Praise Quotes - page 30

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. View quote
Jack Welch
When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we'd first begun. View quote
John Newton
I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. View quote
Taliesin
Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes in doing the work of the world. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
You may set it down as a truth which admits of few exceptions, that those who ask your opinion really want your praise, and will be contented with nothing less. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Tiamak closed his eyes to make a short prayer of thanks, hoping that the gods, like children, could be confirmed in good behavior by praise. View quote
Tad Williams
We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. View quote
Charles Lamb
Praise is the reflection of virtue. (Francis Bacon)
Some, in their discourse, desire rather commendation of wit, in being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were a praise, to know what might be said, and not, what should be thought. View quote
Francis Bacon
Praise be to God with all due praise, and a prayer for Muhammad His chosen servant and apostle. The purpose of this treatise is to examine, from the standpoint of the study of the Law, whether the study of philosophy and logic is allowed by the Law, or prohibited, or commanded either by way of recommendation or as obligatory. View quote
Averroes
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Praise not, O man, the life beyond control, Nor that which bows unto a tyrant's sway. Know that the middle way Is dearest unto God, and they, thereon who wend, They shall achieve the end. View quote
Aeschylus
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ... View quote
Jonathan Swift
Satan found pleasure in praise and in the exercise of his grace; he loved to hear his wisdom and his power belauded. View quote
Anatole France
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. View quote
Rumi
Praise is the shipwreck of historians. View quote
John W. Campbell
Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong, Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong. And when for once the wide world begins to praise her name Her own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame. (A. P. Herbert)
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The duration of religions has always been dependent on human need for them. Christianity has been a blessing for suffering humanity during eighteen centuries ; it has been providential, divine, holy. All that it has done in the interest of civilisation, curbing the strong and strengthening the weak, binding together the nations through a common sympathy and a common tongue, and all else that its apologists have urged in its praise all this is as nothing compared with that great consolation it has bestowed on man. Eternal praise is due to the symbol of that suffering God, the Saviour with the crown of thorns, the crucified Christ, whose blood was as a healing balm that flowed into the wounds of humanity. The poet especially must acknowledge with reverence the terrible sublimity of this symbol. View quote
Heinrich Heine
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. View quote
Denis Diderot
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares! View quote
William Wordsworth