Praise Quotes - Page 40

• Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Crush, Difficult Situations, People

  Joni Eareckson Tada (1993). “A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise”, Multnomah

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• Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.

  C. Sommerville

  Powerful, Children, Punishment

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• When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Oxen, Yoke

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.234

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• Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Circles, Feet

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation

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• I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat.

  Paul Lambert

  Kids, Four, Knees

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• 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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Differences, Would Be

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• As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

  Richard Branson

  People, Leader, Very Good

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• There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...

  Keith Getty

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Air, Live By, Wells

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• He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Firsts, First Time

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• There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Desire, Doe, Recognition

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• Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

  Sam Raimi

  People, Criticism, Heard

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• When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Beautiful, Fire, Wool

  Pierre de Ronsard (1934). “Pierre de Ronsard: Sonnets Pour Hélène; with English Renderings by Humbert Wolfe”

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• To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Important, Honest

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• If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

  Mardy Grothe

  People, Criticism, Unfair

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors.  I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Ambition, Criticism, Criticize

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• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Men, Virtue, Given

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

  George Washington

  Men, Honest, Honest Man

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• A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

  Emily Post

  Justice, Littles, Purses

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

  John Bunyan

  Love Is, Forever, His Love

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• Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Adversity, Prosperity, Worldly

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• Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Oil, Fruits Of The Spirit

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• Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Pockets, Noble

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• He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

  Walter Winchell

  Stones, Firsts, Casts

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