Praise Quotes

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

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

Child, Hug, Earned

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

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

Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

Silence, Enough

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

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

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

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

Envy, May, Fools

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

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

Pretty, Critics, Neck

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

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

Good, Men, Public

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

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

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

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

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

Gratitude, Nothing, Himself

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

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

Heart, Actor, Written

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

Government, Human, Few

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
Sue Kelly

Best, Respect, Medical

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Love, God, Others

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

Women, Paid, Babies

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

Lose, Known, Half

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
Victoria Wood

Good, Great, Mother

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

Others, Encourage, Efforts

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