A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under.
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.
To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.
Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.
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