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Praise Quotes - Page 8

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes
Desire, Action, Praise
Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

Thomas Chatterton
Clay, Praise, Salvation
Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.5

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Thomas a Kempis
Criticism, Flattery, Praise

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

Theodore Roosevelt
Praise, Scoundrels, Given
Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

St. Jerome
Marriage, Unions, Praise

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Solon
Friends, Praise

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

Seneca the Younger
May, Doe, Praise
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler
Inspirational, Praise, Advantage
Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Roger Ebert
Criticism, Merit, Praise

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Quentin Crisp
Blame, Praise, Asks

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Pythagoras
Praise, Certain, Accused

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Plutarch
Merit, Praise, Greedy

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Phil Donahue
Ideas, Praise, Lord
Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.

Nellie Bly
Badass, Praise, Accepting

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes
Discipline, Literature, Praise
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

Mark Kozelek
Praise, Reactions, Process
Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2014.

Self praise is no praise at all.

Lord Byron
Self, Vanity, Praise

Those who praise themselves do not prevail.

Laozi
Taoism, Praise

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

Joan Jett
People, Praise, Sincere

False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

Horace
Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame, Praise
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Frederick Buechner
Attention, Compliment, Praise
Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.320, Zondervan

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Workout, Desire, Praise
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Maxims. No. 152, 1922.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Praise, Reproach

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Path, Praise, Virtue

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