Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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.
I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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.
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
