To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
James Mcneill Whistler

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn

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

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

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

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Charles Fillmore

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

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

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James

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