Top 173 Praising Quotes & Sayings

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

If we want to raise the aspirations of young men, we should be praising their achievements, not talking them down.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Don't ask me how it feels to be a superstar's wife. It doesn't feel anything different. I can't keep on praising him all the time. That would be so boring.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

I don't feel God can truly bless America again until we start praising him in our schools.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

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

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

It was Hillary Clinton who worked with Russia on the New START Treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. It was Hillary Clinton that worked with Russia to get them engaged in a community of nations to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons without firing a shot. She's not going around praising Vladimir Putin as a great guy. But she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals. This is a very challenging part of the world, and we ought to have a commander-in-chief who is prepared and done it, rather than somebody who goes around praising Vladimir Putin as a great leader.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

You get to a certain point where you feel comfortable. You've got everybody praising you for what you do where you come from, sometimes you let down your guard.

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Those who want to 'drain the swamp,' should be praising Mueller for enforcing FARA violations and, in return, prompting more lobbyists to register as foreign agents when required.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

When someone is constantly praising you, beyond a point, you don't know what to say beyond a 'thank you.'

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.