Praise Quotes

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Celebrate

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Book, Read, Classic

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

Prove, Allow, Tasted

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard

Jealousy, Negative, Judgment

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Time, Angry, Moment

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Blame, Reason

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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

Sure, Modesty, Angle

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Marilyn Monroe

Someone, Wonderful, Desired

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, Blame, Everyone

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

Cannot, Sun, Less

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Made, Others

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden

Criticism, Either, Weakness

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

Rather, Trouble, Criticism

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius

Beauty, Beautiful, Nothing

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Greatest, Lost, Christian

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Wisdom, Few

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Saint Francis de Sales

Good, Spiritual, Help

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Themselves, Level

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James

Fact, Call, Genuine

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward

Love, Long, Criticism

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Feelings, Blame, Whatever

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Yourself, Through, Others

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy, Old, Means

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

Remember, Far, Word

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Strong, True, Often

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

Blame, Down, Cannot

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci

Understand, Worse, Ill

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot

Respect, Person, Enough

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