A Quote by Tryon Edwards

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Tryon Edwards

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Blame Contradiction Others Praise Some Themselves

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Tryon Edwards
American - Theologian
August 7, 1809 - January 4, 1894

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

Sathya Sai Baba

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

Gorgias

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

Pope Clement I

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

Matt Redman

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Goldsmith

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Great

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

Alexander Pope

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

Swami Vivekananda

Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.

Juan Carlos I of Spain

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

Jeanne Phillips

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.

Meera

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.