Praising Quotes - page 3

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. (Rosalind Wiseman)
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do. View quote
Dallas Willard
Words like virtue, nobility, honor, honesty, generosity, have become almost impossible to use or else they have acquired bastard meanings; language is no longer equipped for legitimately praising a man's character. View quote
Simone Weil
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
This much will I say for myself - and on this point I do not blush for praising myself - that I have never philosophized save for the sake of philosophy, nor have I ever desired or hoped to secure from my studies and my laborious researches any profit or fruit save cultivation of mind and knowledge of the truth - things I esteem more and more with the passage of time. I have also been so avid for this knowledge and so enamored of it that I have set aside all private and public concerns to devote myself completely to contemplation; and from it no calumny of jealous persons, nor any invective from enemies of wisdom has ever been able to detach me. View quote
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. View quote
Seneca
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. View quote
Ellen G. White
Why – even supposing I had the skill – do you bid me compose a song dedicated to Venus the lover of Fescennine mirth, placed as I am among long-haired hordes, having to endure German speech, praising oft with wry face the song of the gluttonous Burgundian who spreads rancid butter on his hair? View quote
Sidonius Apollinaris
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something. View quote
Ellie Goulding
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. (Will Durant)
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. View quote
Will Durant
The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler. View quote
Taliesin
Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of ray companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven. View quote
Albert Barnes
Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. View quote
Zhuangzi
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge. View quote
Harvey Mackay
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. View quote
Arthur Ashe
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. View quote
Russell Baker
I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation. View quote
John Stossel
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. View quote
William Ralph Inge
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. (William Shakespeare)
What we sow here, we reap there! Can it be supposed that the soul will enjoy a reward or endure a retribution for deeds of which it has no recollection? Is the thing possible? Will it enjoy the bliss of heaven, praising Christ forever as its great Saviour, without any remembrance of the sins and sufferings from which He redeemed and saved it? The idea is absurd. View quote
Randolph Sinks Foster
The more you make yourselves humble and ask for forgiveness, the more your true exaltedness is seen. Humility is a sign of exaltedness. The preface of a spotlessly pure heart (Iman-Islam) is patience (sabur), contentment and gratitude (shakur), having trust in God (tawakkal), and praising Him for everything that happens to us, saying, "Al-hamdu lillah!” Therefore, without feeling shame, ask forgiveness whenever necessary. This will be good. Allah, the Lone One who rules and sustains (Allahu ta'ala Nayan), will protect you and me. View quote
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Everything in this world changes; only God remains the same forever. If mankind will realize this truth, then we can avert disaster by coming together with faith in God and living in unity and compassion. Do not live divided. With compassion for each other, live in unity and truth, in the presence of God. Live according to justice and conscience, respecting the lives and bodies of all others as your own, and knowing the hunger and the suffering of others as your own. Have patience, contentment, trust in God, and live praising God at all times, and peace will be easy. View quote
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
The heathen ... begins to praise Christ, not in order to do him honor, but to make you despair. It is the deadly cunning of the serpent, to turn you away from Christ by praising Christ, to extol deceitfully the one he doesn't dare to disparage. He exaggerates the sovereign majesty of Christ in order to make him out quite unique, to stop you hoping for anything like what was demonstrated in his rising. View quote
Jesus Christ