Praise Quotes - Page 17

• That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Greatness, Men, Self

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• A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Men, Classic

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• Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Care, Littles

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• I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Speak, Speakers

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• The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Men, Followers

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1913). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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• There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

  Moliere

  People, Age, Justification

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• It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mediocrity

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• The house praises the carpenter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Achievement, Carpenter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Painting, Settling

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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

  Cato the Elder

  Hero

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• The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self, Students, Kind

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• We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Thinking, Clouds

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.623

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• Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.

  Jude Bijou

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Giving

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• Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

  Jude Bijou

  Boards, Want, Action

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• Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

  Chuck Pierce

  Doe, Path, Causes

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• There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reproach

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

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• Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Accounts

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Merchant Of Venice, Timeliness

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Abuse, Heal, Wounds

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.151

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• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  William Penn

  Death, Art, Debtors

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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• We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

  John Cheever

  Spiritual, Prayer, Smell

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1956.

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• The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

  Muriel Spark

  Men, Deception, Unjust

  Muriel Spark (1995). “The novels of Muriel Spark”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

  Should Have, Half, Improvement

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150

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