Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Praise

• To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Girl, Women, 4th Of July

• I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Religion, Dignity

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.2

• I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Religious, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Flattery, Praise, Satire

  Benjamin Franklin (1914). “Poor Richard's Almanack”

• Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Two, Criticism, Flattery

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Feb. 1734

• Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Littles, Captains

  Benjamin Franklin (1888). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography”

• Never praise your cider or your horse

  Benjamin Franklin

  Horse, Humorous, Cider

  Benjamin Franklin (1928). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, First Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders”

• If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Deeds, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Is, Self, Punishment

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.359, Penguin

• An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Honest, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Praise little, dispraise less.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Praise

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.233, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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