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I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
Ellen G. White
God
Speak
Word
Evil
Seen
Dreadful
Ministers
Exalt
Faces
Voice
Lift
Never
Praise
Praising
Against
Flattering
Warning
Your
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.
Ernie Harwell
Today
Great
Blessing
Nothing
Ability
Talent
Know
Him
Without
Lord
Praise
His
Thank
Here
Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
Mary Oliver
Life
Good
Day
Prayer
Rain
Grateful
Good Things
Good Day
Language
Animals
Live
Hunt
About
Unconscious
Simply
Along
Come
Talk
Praise
Things
Thirsty
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Thomas a Kempis
Great
Heart
Blame
Brainy
Cares
Neither
Praise
His
Nor
Tranquility
Who
Who Cares
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
You
Judge
Encouragement
Everybody
Back
Our
Out
Self-Esteem
Make
Makes
Praise
Dependency
Then
Us
Your
Slaves
Need
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
War
Will
Evil
Philosophers
Bad
More
Said
Praise
Begets
Greek
Than
Forgetting
Mankind
Who
Even
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
Mario Teguh
Best
Leadership
Failure
You
Yourself
Remember
Big
Boss
Count
Lead
Make
Does
Praise
Done
Whenever
Your
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
God
Man
Soul
Other
Our
Earth
Way
Our Lord
He
Reach
Him
Lord
Praise
Reverence
Were
His
His Way
End
Which
Created
Use
Help
Serve
Things
Save
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
Words
Worth
Free
Few
Nothing
Else
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Sincere
Well-Timed
Praise
Quite
Substitute
Fortune
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope
Satire
Disguise
Praise
Undeserved
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame
Madness
Virtue
Everyone
Praise
Human
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius
Beautiful
Better
Made
Beauty
Nothing
Way
Worse
Part
Beyond
Praise
Itself
Any
Anything
Ask
Derives
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
Intelligence
Remember
Word
One Word
Gospels
Praise
Far
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame
Power
Judgment
Our
Later
More
Only
Over
Underestimated
Praise
Praised
Causes
Undeserved
Than
Being
Reason
Exposed
Conscience
Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.
Richard Branson
You
Organization
Criticism
Employees
Way
High
High Level
Bet
More
Tends
Devastating
Lead
Employee
Always
Praise
Doing
Same
Prefer
Them
Choose
Right
Level
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.
Russell Crowe
Work
Me
People
Criticism
Important
Down
Driven
Highest
Highest Level
Praise
Important Thing
Trying
Just
Thing
Level
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Life
God
Anxiety
Everyday Life
Free
Birds
Everyday
Our
Everything
Pleased
Earth
Wills
He
Almost
Almost Everything
Sing
Maker
Without
Praise
Soar
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge
Man
Blame
Worships
Temple
Factory
Builds
Praise
Due
Reverence
Scorn
Who
Works
Each
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante Alighieri
Sad
Blame
Those
Without
Souls
Praise
Who
Lived
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
Good
People
Criticism
Few
Would
Praise
Few People
Deceives
Prefer
Them
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Men
Others
Kind
Exaggerate
Praise
Any
Expense
Regard
Which
Successful
Should
Why
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.
Kim Fields
Music
Good
Me
You
Soul
Healing
Song
Passion
Gospel Music
Worship
Has-Been
Find
Able
Spirit
True
Know
Gospel
Always
Praise
Testimony
Been
Balm
Very
Being
Which
Usher
I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare
Me
Man
Will
Praise
Any
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
Donald Trump
Good
Me
Man
Real Estate
Father
Good Man
Thought
Tough
Would
He
Developer
Smartest
A Good Man
Always
Praise
Real
Very
Person
Estate
Successful
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne
Praise
Author
Anything
Wants
Sensible
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.
Aristotle
Time
Angry
Man
Right Moment
Feels
Also
Praise
Against
Length
Persons
Manner
Moment
Who
Grounds
Right
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