A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

Luc de Clapiers

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

Philip Sidney

Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.

Martin Luther

It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.

Howard Jacobson

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C. S. Lewis

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

Clarice Lispector

I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.

Alex Morgan

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

Saint John Chrysostom

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Giacomo Leopardi

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.