Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
Self praise is no praise at all.
Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!