Top 1200 Praise And Thanksgiving Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

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

Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

The key to a successful Thanksgiving is planning. Know what needs to get done, when it needs to be done, and how much effort and time it's going to take you.

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

False praise is always confined to the great.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

A little praise goes a great ways.

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense.