Praise Quotes - Page 36

• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  Paul Auster

  Cutting, Wife, Lines

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

  John Piper

  Unhappy, Delight, Worship

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

  Samuel Butler

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

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• There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days,
  No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise:
  Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
  But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Morning, Real

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• Always remember, everyone is hungry for praise and starving for honest appreciation.

  David Berg

  Appreciation, Support, Honest

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• Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Use

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• Their silence is enough praise.

  Terence

  Silence, Enough, Silence Is

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• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Kindness, Men, Judging

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

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• Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

  John Wesley

  Character, Loss, Causes

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• I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Believe, Sportsmanship

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• We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

  Charles Fillmore

  Creation, Increase, Glad

  Charles Fillmore (1967). “Dynamics for Living: A Topical Compilation of Essential Fillmore Teachings”, p.142, BookBaby

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• Wonder is involuntary praise.

  Edward Young

  Wonder, Involuntary

  Edward Young, Dr. Doran (John) (1854). “Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works”, p.221

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• Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

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• When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Return, Action, Giver

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• Praise is the reflection of virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Reflection, Virtue

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.374

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Creation Of Man, Done

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• Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

  Matthew Fox

  Letting Go, Fighting, Space

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• God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

  William Law

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

  Virgil

  Love, Anxiety, Victory

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• Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

  John Gay

  Envy, May, Fool

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.76

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• There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

  Richard Steele

  Receiving, Pleasure, Praiseworthy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.94

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

  Edward Young

  Art, Heart, Reign

  Edward Young (1799). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.”, p.36

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• Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.

  John Piper

  Crush, Mean, Son

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• Praise behaviour that you want repeated

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Nba, Behaviour

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