A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh

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

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

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

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Jose C. Orozco

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor

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

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
John T. Flynn

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff

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

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell