Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.
Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.
It is therefore recommended. . . to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
A child is fed with milk and praise.
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
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.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.
If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
In Donald Trump, you have somebody who praises Vladimir Putin all the time. America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro- Putin elements in the Ukraine, who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder - when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line that he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings?
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.