Praise Quotes

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

Desire, Twice, Refusal

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

Power, Person, Dead

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge

Blame, Works, Reverence

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls

Judge, Makes, Everybody

Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time, Desire, Second

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Anyone, Except

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell

Great, Today, Nothing

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Write, Themselves, Desire

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Ourselves, Order

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige

Blame, Excellent, Virtues

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie

Love, Humble, Vain

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Morning, Friend, Old

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

Value, Gold, Diamonds

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Past, Enough

Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch

Yourself, Blame, Neither

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Thomas Fuller

Blame, Difficult, Rightly

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope

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

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash

Money, Sex, Two

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck

Courage, Give, Ignore

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope

Disguise, Satire, Undeserved

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

Love, Beauty, Blame

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

Men, Honor, Ourselves

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

Men, Pass, Modesty

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Life, God, Everything

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

Happiness, Nothing, Done

I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Catherine the Great

Blame, Softly, Loudly

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Oneself, Train, Affected

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