Top 25 Praise Quotes of 580 - Page 7

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Bob Marley

Stars, Recognition, Praise

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Bill Johnson

Men, Criticism, Praise

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

Literature, Praise, Satire

William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

Watchman Nee

Prayer, Would Be, Praise

It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.

T. B. Joshua

Giving, Praiseworthy

"Widow Gets N200 000 From TB Joshua". The PM News, August 28, 2009.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Saint Augustine

Praise, Duty, Ought

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 207-208, 1922.

The house praises the carpenter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

House, Achievement, Praise

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

Blame is safer than praise

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism, Blame, Praise

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Friendship, Praise, Advise

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Michel de Montaigne

Bragging, Praise, Belittle

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Louisa May Alcott

Doe, Praise, Known

"Louisa May Alcott: Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other Writings".

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Joseph Addison

Music, Mind, Praise

"The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Isaac Barrow

Sweet, Ears, Praise

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cold, Praise, Well Dressed

Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.171, Read Books Ltd

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

Fred Hammond

Song, Worship, Praise

"Fred Hammond on His New Group United Tenors, and the Return of the Male Gospel Ensemble". Interview with Nakiyah Hayling, www.essence.com. March 23, 2013.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Euripides

Excess, Praise, Disgusting

Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Weapons, Praise, Victim

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Donnie McClurkin

Ponds, Frogs, Praise

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

Humor, Envy, Praise

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Work, Fusion, Praise

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!

Adrian Rogers

Doe, Praiseworthy

Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.8, B&H Publishing Group

You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

Wumen Huikai

Faces, Spirituality, Praise

Our praises are our wages.

William Shakespeare

Wages, Praise

William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: the choice sayings of his principal characters analytically and alphabetically arranged”, p.290