Quotes of: Praise Keyword

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

Joan Rivers

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

Stop complaining, start contributing; stop crying, start smiling; and stop criticizing, start praising.

Vishwas Chavan

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Romain Rolland

Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to a crafty listener. Reading, no matter what you're reading, presupposes a belief in the potential of the text - to speak to you, e...

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal e...

In Praise of Love

[first lines] Announcer: In the name of Allah the merciful, all praises due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. The one God to whom praise is due forever. The one who came to us in the person of Master Fard Muhammad and raised up the Honorable Elijah M...

Malcolm X

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

A Grief Observed

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

Of Human Bondage

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Samuel Johnson

My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.

Sinovuyo Nkonki

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

T. Scott McLeod

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

Heather Matarazzo

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

Mark Levin

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

Karen Armstrong

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Dylan Thomas