We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.
God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
if they take half the buildings that they use to? praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight
As we begin to praise ourselves and our world, we begin to blossom in ways that are beautiful to behold.
O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.
I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.
So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
The readers and the hearers like my books,
And yet some writers cannot them digest;
But what care I? for when I make a feast,
I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Giving appreciations, praise, and gratitudes feels good and puts good vibes in the environment.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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.
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
I don't see why people can't praise when they see something done well - even if it is by a woman.
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
I am grateful to Robi Ghosh, who used to praise me a lot. It is because of him that I got the lead role in 'Kalpurush,' my first Hindi serial.
I, painting from myself and to myself,
Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame
Or their praise either.
Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.
Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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