How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.
When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
Let us now praise Barack Obama.
We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
Those they praise, but they read the others.
There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.
The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Blame is safer than praise
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!