Praise Quotes

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

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

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Passion produced out of prayer and praise pushes you to extremes.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Don’t get high off praises, and don’t get too low on critiques.