Praise Quotes - page 6

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (John Wooden)
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life. View quote
Anton Chekhov
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it. View quote
Matthew Henry
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. View quote
Molière
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. View quote
Owen Feltham
I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller. (James Berardinelli)
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. View quote
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the "past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality. View quote
Max Scheler
It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah! View quote
Mike Tyson
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises: sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist. View quote
Johannes Kepler
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. View quote
Albert Einstein
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance. (Paul Goodman)
A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. View quote
Roger Ascham
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist” cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.) View quote
Randall Jarrell
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. View quote
Augustine of Hippo