Praise Quotes - Page 33

• The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

  Nathanael Howe

  Saint, World, Way

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• If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
  Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Criticism

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• Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.

  Max Scheler

  Past, Reality, Mind

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Age, Mouths, May

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• Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Negatives Make, Two

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2000). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1211, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
  A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

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• True praise rootes and spreedes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.347

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• There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

  Edmund Morris

  Criticism, Flood, Wells

  "A chat about the book 'Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 5, 1999.

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• Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Sep 21, 2012

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• Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Sacrifice, Grace

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

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• Praise God we don't have to hide scars

  Jonny Diaz

  Scar, Praise God

  Song: Scars

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• But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.143

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• If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Nice, People, Soul

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• 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.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Done, Good Things, This Life

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• Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  East, World, Tongue

  Bahá'u'lláh (0101). “Prayers and Meditations”, p.160, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Busy, Yearning

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• Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Editors, Syndromes

  Christopher Hitchens (2013). “Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Blame, What Is Life

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• Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Vanity, Opposites

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• For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Path, Never Forget

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• Those they praise, but they read the others.

  Martial

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Dumb, Debt

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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• The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Men, Kind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.22, Graphic Arts Books

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• I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

  St. Jerome

  Marriage, Unions, Wedlock

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• We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving, Thirst

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Рипол Классик

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