Praise Quotes

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

~ Thomas Jefferson

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

~ John Wooden

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

~ Don Meyer

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

~ John Wooden

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would want to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

~ Amit Abraham

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

~ Charles Schwab

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

~ Thomas À Kempis

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

~ William Shakespeare

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

~ Francis Of Assisi

Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

~ Sunday Adelaja

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

~ H.a. Ironside

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone appreciates being appreciated.

~ Lance Greenfield

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

~ William Arthur Ward

Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!

~ Bryant Mcgill

God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who praise God abide in victory.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

~ Jim Corbett

God shines! God is light! God is life! God is good! God is kind! God is love! I will take time to be Holy because He is Holy. I will be still and know that He is God. I will rest in the light of God. God is faithful, He cannot lie. His Holy Spirit lives in my heart.

~ Pazaria Smith

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I've read your summary.And?It's not incompetent.Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

~ Ilona Andrews

Neither blame or praise yourself.

~ Plutarch

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

~ Louisa May Alcott

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

~ Jane Austen

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

~ José De Alencar

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For beneath the winter is a winter so endlessthat to survive it at all is a triumph of the heart.Be forever dead in Eurydice, and climb back singing.Climb praising as you return to connection.Here among the disappearing, in the realm of the transient,be a ringing glass that shatters as it rings.Be. And, at the same time, know what it is not to be.The emptiness inside you allows you to vibratein full resonance with your world. Use it for once.To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayablenumbers of beings abounding in Nature,add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail.

~ Gugu Mona

If a stranger saying we are dependable activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all know that praise is a good thing, as long as it isn't too unconditional, but until very recently, we had no idea that praise taps into the same reinforcement system in the brain that enables cheese to help rats learn to solve mazes. And positive social regard is a renewable resource. Rather than having less of something after using it, when we let others know we value them, both parties have more.

~ Matthew D. Lieberman

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

~ Carol S. Dweck

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Excellent is prasie worthy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being thankful for the things we take for granted, is worth taking pause to understand that they can be taken away within a moment.

~ Ellen Jean Barrier

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

~ David Brazzeal