One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias Canetti

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

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

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

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Denis Diderot

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Ann Patchett

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Thomas Ken

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
Albert Barnes

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

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Howell Forgy

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Peter Stuyvesant

Praise the sea, on shore remain.
John Florio

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope

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