Praise Quotes - page 4

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin! (Montesquieu)
It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. View quote
Robert Frost
Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow, But it were vain to tell he so, And they are better for her praise. View quote
Robert Frost
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. View quote
W. H. Auden
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. View quote
John Ruskin
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun. View quote
Epictetus
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. (Louisa May Alcott)
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. View quote
Ben Jonson
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. View quote
Joseph Addison
Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-creation Of the new day! View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word of God, and as they see Jesus revealed in the lives of His children, they will praise Him with heart and soul and voice. View quote
Ellen G. White
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. View quote
Jack Vance
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Low ambition and the thirst of praise. View quote
William Cowper
The sweeter sound of woman's praise. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise. (George Herbert)
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty. View quote
Dōgen
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. View quote
John Gay
Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise. View quote
James Boswell
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. View quote
John Cheever