Praise Quotes - Page 17

• For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world even though it's disappointing in so many ways. There's always that tension.

  Barbara Hamby

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Criticism, Next

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Thinking, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Grateful, Heart

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hero, Humans, Touched

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Boring, Critics

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.441, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Miracle, Bread

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Eye, Government

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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• Every man praises his own wares.

  John Ray

  Men, Every Man

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• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Octopus, Gossip, Monsters

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• Envy bestrides praise.

  Pindar

  Envy

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Ignored, Condescending, Despised

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Masters, Produce

  José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

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• Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Artist, Applause, Valuable

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• We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Hero, Thinking, Society

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• Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Unjust

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 14, 1889.

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• I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

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• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Want, Spirit

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• The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Pamela Druckerman (2014). “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Giving

  "Two Secrets To A Better You" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

  William Cobbett

  Mother, Children, Making Love

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.181

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

  Elia Kazan

  Stars, Thinking, Too Much

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• You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

  Wumen Huikai

  Faces, Spirituality, Enough

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