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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Quotes by Xenophon

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Quotes by William Penn

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Quotes by Wendell Phillips

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

Quotes by Tua Tagovailoa

I just try to use my platform to praise God.

Quotes by Tua Tagovailoa

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

Quotes by Tom Selleck

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Quotes by Thomas Ken

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

Their silence is praise enough.

Quotes by Terence

The biggest challenge is to not be affected by praise because a lot of it is not from the heart. Being true to yourself about your strengths and weaknesses, when everyone out there has a strong opinion and wants to give advice, is another challenge.

Quotes by Tena Desae

Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

Quotes by Tali Lennox

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Quotes by Taliesin

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can't get greater praise than that.

Quotes by Sue Barker

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Quotes by Studs Terkel

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

Quotes by Steven Yeun

Unless those of us who love our wives (and thus, our lives) make a conscious change to the way we speak of them, unless we begin choosing to elevate and praise our spouses instead of denigrate, we will be letting an incredibly corrosive, self-perpetuating societal meme destroy the very institution that defines our lives.

Quotes by Steven Crowder

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.

Quotes by Stephen Ambrose

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

Quotes by Stephen Baldwin

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Quotes by Stephen Baldwin

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

Quotes by Sharon Gless

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Quotes by Sextus Propertius

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Quotes by Saskya Pandita

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Quotes by Satchel Paige

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Quotes by Sammy Cahn

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Quotes by Sam Raimi

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

Quotes by Saint Basil

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

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Quotes by Russell Crowe

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

Quotes by Roxanne McKee

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Quotes by Romain Rolland

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Quotes by Roger Ascham

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Quotes by Roger Ascham

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Quotes by Robert Martin

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

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

Quotes by Richard Steele

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Quotes by Richard Perle

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

Quotes by Randy Savage

I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he's been able to bring more business out of the jungle.

Quotes by Rakim

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Quotes by Rachel Joyce

Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.

Quotes by Raashi Khanna

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Quotes by Publilius Syrus

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Quotes by Publilius Syrus

I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.

Quotes by Piyush Goyal

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Quotes by Plutarch

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Quotes by Philip Schaff

These are the kinds of names that Zimbabweans like: names that have positive qualities. Like, Praise is a very popular name; Loveness is a very popular name.

Quotes by Petina Gappah

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Quotes by Peter Stuyvesant

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

Quotes by Paul Engle

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.

Quotes by Paul Di Filippo

I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

Quotes by Paul Dano

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Quotes by Owen Feltham

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Quotes by Ovid

Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.

Quotes by Om Malik

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

Quotes by Nicole Richie

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

Quotes by Nancy Grace

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Quotes by Nagarjuna

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Quotes by Moliere

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

Quotes by Michele Bachmann

Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.

Quotes by Meir Soloveichik

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Quotes by Matthew Hale

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Quotes by Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Quotes by Mary Kay Ash

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

Quotes by Martin Chemnitz

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Quotes by Marie Corelli

All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Quotes by Maria Mitchell

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Quotes by Lucinda Williams

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

Quotes by Lee Child

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

Quotes by Laurence Fox

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

Quotes by LaDainian Tomlinson

I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It's all part of being human.

Quotes by Kubra Sait

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Quotes by Kevin Gates

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

Quotes by Kenneth Oppel

For years, fiscally conservative advocacy groups were giving then-Republican representative Justin Amash awards, praise, and donations. Now that he's an independent, however, many of those same groups are snubbing him entirely.

Quotes by Kat Timpf

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Quotes by Karl Kraus

I don't see why people can't praise when they see something done well - even if it is by a woman.

Quotes by Karen Bardsley

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