Praise Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opportunity, Genius, Done

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Identity, Groups

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• To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Hymns

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• Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Rights, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.118

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• The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

  Aristotle

  Men, Benefits, Shame

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• Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Demand

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 21, 1811.

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• There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Hands, Offending

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• In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Thomas Hobbes (2014). “Behemoth or The Long Parliament”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.

  Hugh Black

  Men, Self, Soul

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• I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

  Ibn Battuta

  Desire, World, Earth

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• To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

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