Top 400 Praised Quotes & Sayings

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

We all want to be praised, right?

All these years, when someone praised my work, I would feel lucky.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

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

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

I like to here my own sex praised but not the other.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

He is praised by some, blamed by others.

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

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

People flourish if they’re praised.

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.

Integrity is praised, and starves.

When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

The most-praised generation goes to work

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

It's very flattering to be praised for each of your efforts.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the Italians, the Spanish, and the Germans think. Somehow it's still got that cultural primacy. I feel that too: to get praised in France is better than to get praised anywhere else.

Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

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

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

Good things should be praised.

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Being praised constantly weakens you.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.