Praise Quotes - Page 9

• As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Leader, Coaching

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• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Loss

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• A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

  Russell Page

  Faith, Hope, Song

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• We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

  Francois Fenelon

  Gymnastics, Men, Criticism

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• The rose that all are praising
  Is not the rose for me.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Flower, Rose

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.73

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• It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

  Horace Mann

  Grandparent, Would Be, Deeds

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• The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Gossip, Crow

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

  John Ciardi

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  John Ciardi (1972). “Manner of Speaking”

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• The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Envious, Censure

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.246

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• He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

  John Milton

  Giving, Done, Covenant

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.167

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

  Mason Cooley

  Courage, Bravery, Victory

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• Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Blame, Unfolding

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• Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sweet, Perfume, Fine

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• A bard whom there were none to praise,
  And very few to read.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Poetry, Obscurity, Bards

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• Give me simplicity, that I may live,
  So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
  Know them and practise them: then shall I give
  For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

  George Herbert

  Life, Giving, Simplicity

  George Herbert (1709). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.179

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• America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Land, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.11, Routledge

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• A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

  Karl Kraus

  Might, Snob, Be Good

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• How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
  The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Dust, Magnificence

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.36, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

  George Matthew Adams

  Ideas, Competition, Speak

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• What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

  David Hume

  Simple, Epithet, Reproach

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Effort, Desire

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• How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Is, Self, Punishment

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.359, Penguin

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• No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

  Murray Leinster

  Appreciation, Men, Doe

  Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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