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Success is not obtained overnight, it is built brick by brick with a steady hand and a fierce heart.
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Sophia Alexander
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Wonder is involuntary praise.
Author:
Edward Young
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Xenophon
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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John Wooden
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You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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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.
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James Whistler
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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Alec Waugh
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Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Edmund Waller
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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A. Vogt
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Leonardo Vinci
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An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Marquis Vauvenargues
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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Mark Twain
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
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Dylan Thomas
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
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Studs Terkel
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Their silence is praise enough.
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Terence
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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Taliesin
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
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Publilius Syrus
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
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John Strachan
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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John Steinbeck
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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Author:
Richard Steele
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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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Sophocles
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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William Simms
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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Richard Sheridan
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Author:
Saint Sales
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Author:
Romain Rolland
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Author:
Charley Pride
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Plutarch
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Author:
Fritz Perls
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Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
Author:
Richard Perle
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Author:
William Penn
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Author:
Norman Peale
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Author:
Jean Paul
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Author:
Ann Patchett
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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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
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Author:
Satchel Paige
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Author:
Ovid
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All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Author:
Jose Orozco
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Author:
Moliere
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Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
Author:
Mary Mobley
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Author:
Herman Melville
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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
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Author:
W. Maugham
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Author:
W. Maugham
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Author:
Cotton Mather
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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Author:
John Masefield
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Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Author:
Robert Martin
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Author:
Lance Loud
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Author:
Walter Landor
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Author:
Thomas Ken
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Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
Author:
Sue Kelly
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Author:
John Keats
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
Author:
Bobby Jones
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Author:
Billy Joel
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
Author:
William James
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Author:
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Author:
Cullen Hightower
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Author:
Alex Haley
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Author:
Matthew Hale
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I praise loudly. I blame softly.
Author:
Catherine Great
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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Author:
Billy Graham
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
Author:
Sharon Gless
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Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
Author:
Arnold Glasgow
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Author:
John Gay
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
Author:
E. Forster
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
Author:
Howell Forgy
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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
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Praise the sea, on shore remain.
Author:
John Florio
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Author:
Owen Feltham
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Author:
T. Eliot
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The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
Author:
Russell Crowe
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
Author:
Martin Creveld
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To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.
Author:
George Crabbe
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Author:
Noel Coward
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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Author:
Marie Corelli
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
Author:
George Colman
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Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Author:
Robert Collier
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
Author:
John Ciardi
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Author:
Martin Chemnitz
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
Author:
Catherine Catherine II
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Author:
Elias Canetti
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.
Author:
James Beattie
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Author:
James Barrie
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Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
Author:
Albert Barnes
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Author:
Carl Bach
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Author:
Saint Avila
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
Author:
Mary Ash
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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Author:
Mary Ash
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Author:
Roger Ascham
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Author:
Aristotle
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
Author:
Chris Allsburg
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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Author:
Dante Alighieri
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
Author:
Thomas Aldrich
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Author:
Joseph Addison
