Praise Quotes - Page 40

• It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Air, Live By, Wells

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• We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different ways to preach. You can preach by praising. You can preach by preaching sermons. You can preach by just giving someone food when they're hungry. There are people who will never darken a church door but they will come to see a play.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Media, Play, Doors

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Empty

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 50, en.wikiquote.org. 1721.

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• The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Men, Ice

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• He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Firsts, First Time

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• There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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• Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

  Bernard Baruch

  People

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• Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Desire, Gold

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

  James Boswell

  Men, Self, Censure

  James Boswell (1820). “The life of Samuel Johnson”, p.656

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• When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Beautiful, Fire, Wool

  Pierre de Ronsard (1934). “Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Hélène; with English Renderings by Humbert Wolfe”

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• To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Important, Honest

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• Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

  Fraser Young

  Weather, Flattery, Fairs

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• If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

  Mardy Grothe

  People, Criticism, Unfair

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors.  I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Ambition, Criticism, Criticize

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

  Mike Royko

  Horse, Beer, Years

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• When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.

  Tony Evans

  Football, Holiday, Giving

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• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Men, Virtue, Given

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

  George Washington

  Men, Honest, Honest Man

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• Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, May, Forget

  Matthew Henry (1808). “An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations”

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• His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

  John Bunyan

  Love Is, Forever, His Love

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• I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

  Mark Kozelek

  Reactions, Process, Accolades

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2014.

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• And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Long, Rest Of Your Life, Very Happy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2701, Simon and Schuster

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