Praise Quotes

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Robert Winston

Deserve, Media, Greater

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

Pretty, Critics, Neck

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

Success, May, Himself

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
Lucinda Williams

Work, Somebody, Process

Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.
Tom Colicchio

Best, Give, Find

Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

Silence, Enough

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
Lee Child

Books, Second, Facts

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Studs Terkel

Past, Through, Activists

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

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

Envy, May, Fools

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

God, Father, Blessings

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Good, Men, Public

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan

Men, Fight, Human

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Sam Raimi

Heard, Twice, Criticisms

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

Advice, Fans, Helpful

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

Heart, Actor, Written

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

Good, Learning, Encourage

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
James Beattie

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
Christoph Waltz

Beginning, Result, Process

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

Gratitude, Nothing, Himself

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
Nancy Grace

Death, Getting, Worth

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

Friend, Why, Another

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

Lose, Known, Half

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
Sharon Gless

Women, Paid, Babies

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Nagarjuna

Others, Encourage, Efforts

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

Age, Find, Become

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Richard Steele

Pleasure, Receiving

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.
Christoph Waltz

Time, Long, Nothing

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
Jill Abramson

Criticism, Goes, Dogs

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
Tom Selleck

Movies, Week, Risk

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