Praise Quotes - Page 19

• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hero, Humans, Touched

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Boring, Critics

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.441, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Miracle, Bread

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

  Cullen Hightower

  Would Be, Generations, Argument

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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.

  George Crabbe

  House, Pay, Treats

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.188

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• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Eye, Government

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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• Every man praises his own wares.

  John Ray

  Men, Every Man

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• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Octopus, Gossip, Monsters

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• It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Prayer, Heart, Reality

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• Envy bestrides praise.

  Pindar

  Envy

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ignored, Condescending, Despised

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Children, Light, Law

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

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Masters, Produce

  José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

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• Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Artist, Applause, Valuable

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• We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Hero, Thinking, Society

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• Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Unjust

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 14, 1889.

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• I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

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• As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Our World, Way

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• Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Kindness, Sometimes, Good Things

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• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Want, Spirit

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• The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.158, Penguin

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• What happens when we begin to praise our own abilities? And this is not focusing on an inflated ego, but on appreciation and praise. What happens when we begin sincerely to give thanks for our wonderful minds and our strong and healthy bodies? It's not at all difficult to believe that our own senses of confidence and self-worth are actually activated and strengthened.

  John Templeton

  Appreciation, Strong, Believe

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• Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

  Catherine the Great

  Grateful, People, Blame

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• The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Effort, Pleasure

  John Ruskin (2008). “The Lamp of Memory”, p.43, Penguin UK

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