Quotes about Praise

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on. But this is very much the same as if you should be grieved because those who have lived before you did not praise you.

Keep before your eyes the swift onset of oblivion, and the abysses of eternity before us and behind; mark how hollow are the echoes of applause, how fickle and undiscerning the judgments of professed admirers, and how puny the arena of human fame. For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of our own habitation but a minute corner in it; and how many are therein who will praise you, and what sort of men are they?

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Both rate men's praise or blame at their real worthlessness; 'Let not thy peace,' says the Christian, 'be in the mouths of men.' But it is to God's censure the Christian appeals, the Roman to his own soul.

You want the praise of people who kick themselves every 15 minutes. The praise of people who despise themselves?

The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

Worship comes from a thankful heart.

The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person.