Quotes on Praise

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Author: Elias Canetti

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Author: George Colman

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

Author: John Florio

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Author: John Flynn

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

Author: Howell Forgy

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Author: Johann Goethe

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Author: Matthew Hale

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Author: Alex Haley

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

Author: Phyllis McGinley

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Author: Moliere

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Author: Nagarjuna

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Author: Jose Orozco

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Author: Ovid

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Author: Thomas Paine

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Author: Wendell Phillips

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Author: Lucius Seneca

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Author: William Shakespeare

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Author: Taliesin

Their silence is praise enough.

Author: Terence

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Author: Eli Wallach

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Author: James Whistler

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Author: Xenophon

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Author: Edward Young

Success is not obtained overnight, it is built brick by brick with a steady hand and a fierce heart.

Author: Sophia Alexander