Quotes with praise

  • As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
  • Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
  • The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Marilyn Monroe It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Keats 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.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 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.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Publilius Syrus Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Sydney Smith Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Walter Savage Landor An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Ben Lovett As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Nicholas Boileau Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • William Arthur Ward Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich 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.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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