153 Praise Quotes

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

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.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

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

Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.

He who praises everybody praises nobody.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!

O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country, first in defeat of the Taliban and now a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

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

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about the success.

The honour is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honour'd Margaret.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a lo'esome wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.

You say, as I have often given tongue In praise of what another's said or sung, 'Twere politic to do the like by these; But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?

Awake, awake, my Lyre! And tell thy silent master's humble tale In sounds that may prevail; Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire: Though so exalted she And I so lowly be Tell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.

Steadfast of thought, Well made, well wrought, Far may be sought, Ere that ye can find So courteous, so kind As merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.

Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word!

He is a great person, as well as a great musician. And this guy sings like he was born down below Mississippi!

Cannavaro is having a fantastic World Cup. He is without question the strongest defender at this tournament and the absolute number one in the world.

On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour etre loue.

Il y a des reproches qui louent et des louanges qui medisent.

Le refus des louanges est un desir d'etre loue deux fois.

That kid's so smart, he could be the fifth Marx Brother.

I just have to say that Heath is the greatest. He is an amazing person, incredible, and so Australians must be doing something right. He is just so relaxed and I feel like Australia must be like that.

My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

These are rotten, so you're the Queen Of all are living, or have been.

If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

A gem of a man. (Un perla de hombre.)

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

Good people all, with one acord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word - From those who spoke her praise.

This one's from the Book!

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

Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.

Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.

O moral Gower!

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. ~ Adam Smith

'For He that is mighty hath done great things for me, and Holy is His Name' (Luke 1:49). Luther comments:

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. ~ Richard Wagner

A fucking good tune