So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.
I just try to use my platform to praise God.
I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.
Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.
He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
You don't expect opposition fans to praise the other players.
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.
Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.
To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.
I only ever give praise to elite fighters.
Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
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