Praise Quotes - Page 24

• How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Clay, Salvation, Celebrate

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.5

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• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Building Up, Effort

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Brooklyn praise is half slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brooklyn, Half, Slander

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.370, Univ of California Press

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• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Men, Tree

  John Muir (1988). “Northwest Passages - From the Pen of John Muir: In California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska”

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• Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

  Plutarch

  Sound

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (1905). “Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corr. and rev. by William Goodwin, with an introd. by Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Speak, Dealer

  Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140

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• Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

  Matthew Henry

  Religious, Men, Understanding

  Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com

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• Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Eye, Son

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• Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

  Pericles

  Men, Glory, Given

  Address to women in the Funerary Oration. Quoted in Thucydides History of the PeloponnesianWar, 2.45.2 (translated by RWarner,1961).

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• All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

  Don DeLillo

  Men, Earth, Deeds

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• The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism". PBS documentary, June 2005.

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• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

  Washington Allston

  Envy, Common, Disguise

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• We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Fall, Taught Us, Forever

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• Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

  John Calvin

  Envy, Doe, Glory

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.43, Ravenio Books

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• It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Voice, House, Dumb

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 562, 1895.

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• Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word of God, and as they see Jesus revealed in the lives of His children, they will praise Him with heart and soul and voice.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  "The Signs of the Times" by Ellen G. White, paragraph 10, December 9, 1903.

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• Calmly take what ill betideth;
  Patience wins the crown at length:
  Rich repayment him abideth
  Who endures in quiet strength.
  Brave the tamer of the lion;
  Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
  Bravest he who rules his passions,
  Who his own impatience sways.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Passion, Winning, Brave

  "'Die wiedergefundenen Söhne' ('The Recovered Sons', 1801)". The Monthly Religious Magazine, Volume 10, p. 445, 1853.

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• For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Queens, Adequate, Firsts

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ambition, Self, Political

  "Erasmus's Praise of Folly: Rivalry and Madness". Neophilologus Journal, 1992.

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• To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Keys, People

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

  Frank Miller

  Dirty, Hero, Knights

  "Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!". COMICDOM interview, January 22, 2006.

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• Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Marriage, Thinking, Awards

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin

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• The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

  John Searle

  Example, Calling, Speech

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Sex, People, Expectations

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.321, Random House

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