Praise Quotes - Page 16

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

You can't praise what you don't prize.

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

The present eye praises the present object.