Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
Richard Perle

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

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.
Thomas Kempis

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
Martin Yan

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
Mary Ann Mobley

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Cotton Mather

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
Catherine II

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

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