Praise Quotes - Page 15

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

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

I had people telling me I was the best and when it would sink in, I'd feel like I'd have to push things further, otherwise I wasn't worthy of their praise.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

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

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

When you do something you are proud of, praise yourself for it.