236 Praise Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Heart Blame Out Bestowed Freeze Praise Much Season

I've got a good record, but maybe, for whatever reason, it's not built up by people. I wouldn't say I'm hard done by. But it's true that I sometimes don't get the praise. Peter Crouch

Good People Sometimes Whatever Say Record Good Record True Got Built Praise Up Get Done Maybe Hard Reason

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. Peter Stuyvesant

War Peace Blessed Possessions Torch Secured Hath Threatened He Lighted Lord Praise Where Your England Even Jerusalem Here Gates

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. Petina Gappah

Positive Kinds Name Like Names Qualities Praise Very Popular

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances. Phil Knight

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You Angle Only Bait Sure Praise Modesty

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

Somebody Big Salt Think Too Takes Praise Pinch Very Who

Sometimes you have to praise players. Rafael Benitez

You Sometimes Praise Players

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. Randy Savage

Good You Hate Old Too Torch Carry Wrestlers Sometime Pass Got Praise Gets Any Heavy Younger Used Who

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. Richard Perle

Government Rights World Example Few Human Rights France Worse Tyrants Record More Ardently Supporting For Example Does Praise Governments Than Human

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

Pleasure Like Praise Praiseworthy Receiving

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. Rick Perlstein

Abortion Deliver Never He Hosts Make Praise Reagan However His Mall Did Ronald Reagan Much Illegal Rallies

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. Robert Collier

World Will Trouble Encouragement Nothing Swimming Bit About Only Most Tides Make Knows Praise Goal Against Us Need

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all. Robert Winston

People Some People Think Some Had Like Greater Because Praise Celebrity Than Get Being Really Agree Exposure Media Deserve

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring. Roger Ebert

Long Critics Boring Praise Movie Movies

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

War Those Find More Detestable Participating Without Praise Who Even

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do. Rosalind Wiseman

Positive Good Feel Good Parents Giving Think Mindless Everything Kids About Self Never True Feel Self-Esteem Understand Praise Praising Going Children Want Esteem Themselves Teach Ridiculous Why

'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay. Sarah Weinman

People Black Those Bay Daring Critics Also Qualities Misunderstanding Praise Mix Sensed Formal Publication Applauded Basic Pearls Kept

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. Saskya Pandita

Man Blame Own Virtues Thoroughly Characteristics Excellent Know Powers Praise

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

Women Babies Praise Acknowledgment Paid Who Raise

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs. Sherwood Smith

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